Permanent Quotes
The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. We fall in love with someone for a reason. That reason is either temporary or permanent.
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.
If we look at the world with a deluded body and mind, we will think that our self is permanent. But if we practice correctly and return to our true self, we will realize that nothing is permanent
We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.
I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.
The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.
I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.
Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.
The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.
Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.
...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.
I'll continue to carry out whatever we are committed to. Whatever we believe leads us to a permanent solution the way we want it, the way I want it.
But for me, to get the tattoo was part of moving into adulthood. Making a choice that is permanent and that I'll have to stick with.
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
