Permanent Quotes

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. (Charlie Chaplin)
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. View quote
Milton Friedman
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. View quote
Phil Donahue
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Pain is never permanent. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. (G. H. Hardy)
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. View quote
Jack London
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict. View quote
Robert Shea
I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it. View quote
Yoko Ono
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. View quote
Maimonides
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual. (Cyril Connolly)
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? View quote
John Templeton
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. View quote
Tom Stoppard
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. View quote
James A. Michener