Lasting Quotes - Page 22

• The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

  J. B. Priestley

  Heart, Shy, Facts

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• Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Discipline, Facts

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• Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.

  Savitri Devi

  Real, Humble, Sight

  Savitri Devi (2010). “The Lightning and the Sun”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Doe, Reason

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 14, 19,

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• I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you... when there is no spiritual growth... there is no spiritual strength... there is no lasting happiness... and, there is no real or lasting wealth.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Real, Book

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• If you want to communicate something, youd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Believe, Design, Teeth

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• It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

  Art Rust, Jr.

  Depression, Baseball, War

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• Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Dog, Children, Unique

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• We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

  Frank Knox

  Gratitude, War, Army

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• The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.

  Rachel Carson

  Sky, Sea, Amazing Life

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.

  Marcus Garvey

  Strong, War, Men

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.13, Ravenio Books

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• When the words ‘like a girl’ are used to mean something bad, it is profoundly disempowering. I am proud to partner with Always to shed light on how this simple phrase can have a significant and long-lasting impact on girls and women. I am excited to be a part of the movement to redefine ‘like a girl’ into a positive affirmation.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Girl, Mean, Simple

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• Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

  Frank Oski

  Medicine, Feeding, Informed Consent

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• Whence has come thy lasting power.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1891). “Poems”

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• One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.

  Eric Hoffer

  Technology, Men, Medicine

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 60, 1973.

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• I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Thinking, Perfection, Greek

  Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.180, Macmillan

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• If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Happiness, Ignorance, Men

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• Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.

  Wilbur Smith

  Character, Mind, Lasting Impressions

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• The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Dog, Loss, Ties

  Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson (2002). “Man Meets Dog”, p.135, Psychology Press

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• It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

  Robert Frost

  Reading, Taken, Writing

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• You have people around the country who are benefitting from the steps that we've taken [with Obamacare] and as long as they continue to get helped, then at least I'll know in my own mind that the work we did here had a lasting impact.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Taken, Impact

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If you want to create vital, long-lasting love, you must become a master of verbal & nonverbal appreciation

  Gay Hendricks

  Appreciation, Love You, Long

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• At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

  Isabel Allende

  Blood, Imagination, Stronger

  Isabel Allende (2015). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Journey, Men

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

  Linda Chavez

  Success, Art, Creating

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