Lasting Quotes - Page 13

• I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

  George Washington

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1778). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”, p.286

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Children, Cities

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Reading, Giving

  6 Copy quote

• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Regret, Reading

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.43

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

  Horace

  Appreciation, Latin, Bronze

  Odes bk. 3, no. 30, l. 1

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Time, Simplicity, Ephemeral

  17 Copy quote

• Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

  Agnes Repplier

  Quality, Infinite, Wit

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Vices, May

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.302

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over an ally.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Military, War

  4 Copy quote

• You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.

  Clive Davis

  Stars, Commitment, Makeup

  6 Copy quote

• On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to be insanne occasionally. We take turnes on who gets to be wich person

  Christopher Meloni

  Love, Funny, Secret

  5 Copy quote

• School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Stupid, School

  20 Copy quote

• Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

  Ludwig Borne

  Change, Perpetual

  "Denkrede auf Jean Paul Friedr. Richter". Book by Ludwig Borne, 1826.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Vigor, Certain

  9 Copy quote

• The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

  William Arthur Ward

  Giving, Joy, Thrill

  10 Copy quote

• Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

  William Morris Hunt

  Art, Book, Men

  7 Copy quote

• In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Wish, Three

  7 Copy quote

• To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Spring, Character, Political

  1787-8 The Federalist Papers.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty.

  Pal Schmitt

  Long, Important, Today

  5 Copy quote

• We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population.

  Barbara Lee

  Military, War, Reality

  7 Copy quote

• All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Taken, Men, Race

  15 Copy quote

• To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjöld, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace.

  Albert Lutuli

  War, Men, Skills

  "Africa and Freedom". Albert Lutuli's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1961.

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Lying, Simple

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2014

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for authority, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting peace.

  Wilhelm Reich

  War, Responsibility, Men

  50 Copy quote

• I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Spring, Book, Writing

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

  4 Copy quote

  Show source