Permanent Quotes

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Suicide is like the ejector button in the cockpit of an F-15. If life goes into a permanent tail spin, it's nice to know the option is there.

-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.

As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.

I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

If I could go back to my younger self, I'd be like, "Not everything's permanent."

Tax cuts are temporary, tax increases are permanent.

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

The presidency is temporary - but the family is permanent.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States.

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

I'm worried about a permanent Republican majority. That's what I'm worried about for the future.

According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

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.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

Nothing is permanent.

The average permanent lasts about four months.

You must learn to control your money, or to the permanent deprivation control you