Top 100 Quotes About Permanent
#1. Most of all, I love graduations. They are individual and communal, an end and a beginning, more permanent than weddings, more inclusive than religions, and possibly the most moving ceremonies on earth.
Gloria Steinem
#2. A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree ... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great, permanent noble things.
Harold Nicolson
#4. It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#5. Set foot in our house again," said Sofia, "and you'll become a permanent feature in my laboratory.
Scott Lynch
#6. [The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt
#8. It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.
Ayn Rand
#9. Perhaps most strikingly of all, it was clear in 1988 that those inside the process had congealed into a permanent political class, the defining characteristic of which was its readiness to abandon those not inside the process.
Joan Didion
#10. Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
Orson Welles
#11. Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.
George W. Bush
#12. We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
Robert Reich
#13. The pen feels unnatural in my hand. It's so much weightier than pencil. Permanent. There are no erasers, in life. - Alexis Riggs
Cynthia Hand
#14. She had made a terrible error in judgement and he had turned it into something permanent and beautiful. That was the nail in the tire. Or not even that. Not her reading it, not his writing it, but
Ann Patchett
#15. Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
T. S. Eliot
#16. Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.
Charles Koch
#17. It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alteration between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#18. There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.
Conor Oberst
#20. Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.
Edmund Burke
#21. We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.
Ellen Stofan
#22. Things weren't permanent, things could always fall apart, never get too comfortable, and even those you trust, those you trust as authority figures and role models, are liable to show themselves as illusions.
Michael Hastings
#23. Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in folkways of permanent and traditional personal aloofness.
H.P. Lovecraft
#24. Eternal joy arises by living in the 'permanent room'. Living in the 'temporary room' gives temporary joy.
Dada Bhagwan
#25. This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one
Alice Sebold
#26. Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
Adam Gopnik
#27. Joy is temporary, Happiness is permanent; for it comes out from positive mind and is an art of tension free heart.
Vikrmn
#28. The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.
Paula Hawkins
#29. I absolutely believe that those who come here illegally should not be given favoritism or a special route to becoming permanent residents or citizens that's not given to those people that have stayed in line legally. I just think we have to follow the law. I think that's the right course.
Mitt Romney
#30. Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
Ellsworth Huntington
#31. I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the country, and I have a number of pieces in permanent collections in museums that I'm very proud of.
Leonard Nimoy
#32. If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!
T. Harv Eker
#33. There is no permanent place in this universe for evil ... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.
Thomas Carlyle
#34. Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
John Desmond Bernal
#35. An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler
#36. Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
W. Somerset Maugham
#37. He didn't have to remember, I remembered. I had bronzed the words. No, they were fragments of bullet, lodged in my heart. Whenever I moved a certain way they ached, so I learned a totally different way, a new walk, except it wasn't really a walk, it was more a permanent limp.
Thomas Rayfiel
#38. We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.
John Negroponte
#39. According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.
Bill Vaughan
#40. It is only by chance that we are reminded of the permanent circumstances of our life.
Paul Valery
#41. I knew the marks were never going to disappear. They were always there. Permanent in the deepest sense of the word.
Keary Taylor
#42. You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they're changing all the time and the changes aren't always peaceful. Underneath us, beneath us here right now, there are forces that can tear this whole mountain apart.
Robert M. Pirsig
#43. A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.
Dannika Dark
#44. The people who succeed despite depression do three things. First, they seek an understanding of what's happening. They they accept that this is a permanent situation. And then they have to transcend their experience and grow from it and put themselves out into the world of real people.
Andrew Solomon
#45. It was only one man who had gone, but it felt like forever, something so permanent and unstoppable that it blasted her. If she were a tree, she would drop all her leaves.
Jenny Downham
#46. The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
Rita Mae Brown
#47. Hearts are like stones on an ocean beach ... And people are like the tides that leave permanent marks on them.
Loretta Ellsworth
#48. The world might not see it or think of it,
But you are enough to have someone
sacrificed for you.
That should tell you that not every hardship
you go through is permanent,
It is just temporary.
It's like a starter,
You still have the dessert to enjoy.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#49. So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.
Hassan Nasrallah
#50. When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
Andy Goldsworthy
#51. Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.
Thucydides
#52. It's impossible to imagine my mother like that. I cannot imagine her softened, thawed, decayed, becoming sweeter as she spoils. I imagine her trapped in a mirror instead. A permanent image of her locked into a rectangle of hard brightness, open-eyed.
Laura Kasischke
#53. Grown on a grand scale, sugar spreads its blight on a grand scale and today unemployment and poverty are these islands' permanent guests.
Eduardo Galeano
#54. It never ended. Even though she'd thought she'd covered her heart with a permanent porcelain shell, he still found a way to chip at it.
Jojo Moyes
#56. The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve naturally according to context or need.
Andrea Zittel
#57. The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.
Rhea Perlman
#58. Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#59. We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.
Samuel Richardson
#60. Nothing is permanent, I tell myself over and over. Especially not a horse.
Mara Dabrishus
#61. Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
Roger Scruton
#62. Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.
George Friedman
#63. If you lose track of time, you lose track of your mind. You don't go crazy necessarily, but your thoughts wander. They go on permanent vacations.
Aaron Starmer
#64. It wasn't permanent like the limestone cross that flagged the mountain peak in the horizon, so he made sure to write it down. After making the sign of the cross, a deep hunger pulled his weight to the bottom of La Loma.
Richard Yanez
#65. Permanent peace and balance is an impossible goal. Far better would be to strive for a general state of equality, so that no matter what evils one kingdom might conjure, they would never be undefeatable. And
Sara Raasch
#66. Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.
Hugh Black
#67. When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.
Linda Chavez
#68. Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
Miep Gies
#69. Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.
This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
Ben Harper
#70. My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.
Robert Atkins
#71. Never let a temporary problem cause you to make a permanent wrong decision.
Michelle Word Hollis
#72. A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G.H. Hardy
#73. Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.
Debasish Mridha
#74. There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
Thomas Hardy
#75. All his life he has avoided permanent intimacy. Till this war he has been a better lover than husband. He has been a man who slips away, in the way lovers leave chaos, the way thieves leave reduced houses.
Michael Ondaatje
#76. Nothing is permanent. Not even the end
of the world.
Isaac Marion
#77. The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.
Beth Moore
#78. When I think of my youth, he went in, what we took for granted, what we assumed was for ever certain, for ever permanent.
William Boyd
#79. But singleness need not be permanent. It merely means being content in our present situation while being open to marriage - and yet not consumed by the pursuit of marriage.
Christopher Yuan
#80. We see facts with our eyes; we see ideas with our minds; we see ideals with our souls. Whatever we see with our souls is real and permanent and cannot be destroyed.
Glenn Clark
#82. Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.
James Van Praagh
#83. No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes - NAPOLEON HILL
Napoleon Hill
#84. America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.
Jo Ann Emerson
#86. Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
Bill Vaughan
#87. Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.
Michael Steele
#88. When you know that everything matters - that every move counts as much as any other - you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.
Andy Andrews
#89. It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
Pat Tiberi
#90. When you thought of permanent oblivion, temporary oblivion was the only foxhole you had.
Harry Turtledove
#91. Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.
Julie Schumacher
#92. The only permanent aspect of creation is constant impermanence.
Chris Matakas
#93. No problems are temporary until they are over. All problems are potentially permanent.
Austin Wright
#94. If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#95. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#97. People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.
Christabel Pankhurst
#98. Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.
Ronald Reagan
#99. Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
Theodore Parker
#100. You must learn to control your money, or to the permanent deprivation control you
Dave Ramsey
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