Permanent Quotes

If I were playing against Corey Perry, I’d probably want to hurt him in some painful and permanent way. And I think most of the rest of the league feels the same way.

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.

I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.

Without a Sabbath, no worship; without worship, no religion; and without religion, no permanent freedom.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.

All leaders are permanent learners.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.