Permanent Quotes

A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

I believe in permanent revolution.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

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.

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent.

I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent. The chaos and the stress of life won't last forever. Eventually, it will go away and I will once again be left with nothing but happiness.

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

The Buddhist concept is that it takes 48 days to get near this state [of death]. So it's a slow process, moving into, not a permanent death, but the world of the dead.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.

In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.

Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.

By losing my external things, I found myself. I found something very powerful, very permanent, that I could have with me all the time.

A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.

The changes that happened in my life from doing these movies are so permanent that I don't think I'll ever really say goodbye, it'll always be a part of me, the Hunger Games.

It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.

Temporary anger is no need to make permanent mistakes.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

The psychic scars caused by believing that you are ugly leave a permanent mark on your personality.

Bruises fade. Death is permanent.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.