Permanent Quotes - page 2

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. (Jane Austen)

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Jack London

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Mignon McLaughlin

The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.

Carroll Quigley

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is a permanent attitude.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

Junot Diaz

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.

Dick Thornburgh

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. (Dick Thornburgh)

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Mary Ritter Beard

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Frederick Soddy

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

Germaine Greer

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

Sinclair Lewis

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

Thomas Malthus

Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about.

Angelina Jolie

It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

David Ricardo

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. (David Ricardo)

I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups-(a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.

H. P. Lovecraft

good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.

H. P. Lovecraft

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

Robert Owen

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Herbert Simon

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