Permanent Quotes - page 5

But she laced her fingers through mine. I remember what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought-just maybe-we were off to a good start. (Rick Riordan)
I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years. View quote
Rick Riordan
Travis: I didn't know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month. Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek. Travis: You are a geek. View quote
Rick Riordan
Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent. View quote
Rick Riordan
I want to build some thing permanent. View quote
Rick Riordan
People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires. View quote
Robert Greene
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. View quote
Cynthia Ozick
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! View quote
T. Harv Eker
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. View quote
George Saunders
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during those beautiful hours of free time everyone would have the opportunity to rouse himself into real boredom. But although one wants to do nothing, things are done to one: the world makes sure that one does not find oneself. And even if one perhaps isn't interested in it, the world itself is much too interested for one to find the peace and quiet necessary to be as thoroughly bored with the world as it ultimately deserves. (Siegfried Kracauer)
Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female. View quote
Loretta Chase
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent. View quote
Loretta Young
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything. View quote
Ariel Pink
Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation. View quote
William Vickrey
If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see at once that an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology. View quote
Paul Davies
Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation. View quote
T.D. Jakes
A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else. View quote
Kelly Link
If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation. (Madeleine L'Engle)
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. View quote
Gregory Maguire
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial. View quote
Antonio Munoz Molina
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
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. View quote
Bob Goodlatte