Permanent Quotes

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.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

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.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids.

Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.

And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.

The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass.

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

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.

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.

In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

If everything were permanent, singular, or independent, nothing would change.

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

The only permanent and constructive changes you can make in the world are the changes that you make in yourself.

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

Nothing is more permanent than the temporary.

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.

Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.