Permanent Quotes - Page 5

• Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

  Socrates

  Change, Remember, Fortune

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• There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of a class that knows little other than spin and the machinations of politics. Little wonder that leadership of the transforming sort is so hard to come by. The danger is that this may be permanent. Where our best people shun politics because the profession isn't honoured as it once was, this only serves to make the profession even less honoured.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Class, People

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• There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

  Susan Wiggs

  Mother, Loss, Never Quit

  Susan Wiggs (2011). “The Goodbye Quilt”, p.162, MIRA

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• Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.

  Peter Leithart

  Men, Vanity, Evil

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• If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

  Colin Beavan

  Important, Pleasure, Ifs

  Colin Beavan (2011). “No Impact Man: Saving the planet one family at a time”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My mom's always like, 'You don't have to be that honest. You have to be more fake.' You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

  Agnes Bruckner

  Mom, Divorce, Talking

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• Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Forgiveness, Peace, Heart

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• The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Long, Patriotism, Different

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• Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

  Molly Ivins

  Government, Political, Politics

  "Jon Carroll" by Jon Carroll, www.sfgate.com. February 14, 2007.

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• But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

  A. M. Rosenthal

  Strong, Team, Nwo

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• I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Believe, Men

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• The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Boys, Cells

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• Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

  Ernest Istook

  Children, Math, Technology

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• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  Aaron Copland

  Feelings, Live For Today, Alive

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• Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they demonstrated that there really is this government that just is the kind of permanent government that doesn’t get affected by election choices and that isn’t in any way accountable to any sort of democratic transparency and just creates its own world off on its own.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

  "Glenn Greenwald Slams 'F**king Hawk' Hillary Clinton as 'Banal, Corrupted'" by Randy Hall, www.newsbusters.org. May 12, 2014.

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• True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

  Gerrit Smith

  Peace, War, Slavery

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• Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Adversity, Way, Temporary

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• Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a few fatal exceptions, bad food will only make you sick but do no permanent harm. In contrast, a person who feasts upon filthy stories or pornographic or erotic pictures and literature records them in this marvelous retrieval system we call a brain. The brain won't vomit back filth. Once recorded, it will always remain subject to recall, flashing its perverted images across your mind and drawing you away from the wholesome things in life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Things In Life, Drawing, Sick

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• The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

  Marcel Proust

  Sea, Opinion, Appearance

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1903, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Robert Greene

  Ideas, People, Desire

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.146, Profile Books

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• Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights – I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.

  Angelina Grimke

  Jesus, Men, Rights

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• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Exercise, Imagination

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Victory, Doe, Shows

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• A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clouds, Sky, People

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• Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

  Matt Blunt

  Children, Home, Responsibility

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