Quotation Explorer - 'Permanent'

A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage. - C.D. Darlington
Wealth wins temporary allies;love wins permanent friends. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves. - RVM. - R.v.m.
Some people have just rented your body to live in it for sometime and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence to dwell in forever. Which ever, you must remember to accommodate all those who want to be accommodated. Be each other's keeper - Israelmore Ayivor
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. - Raymond Carver
As I feel into a darker sleep, I understood that I had learned something. Now that I knew fear, I also knew that it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass. - Louise Erdrich
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. - W. Somerset Maugham
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality. - Gabriel García Márquez
Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion - Tawny Lara
It was only one man who had gone, but it felt like forever, something so permanent and unstoppable that it blasted her. If she were a tree, she would drop all her leaves. - Jenny Downham
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. - Slavoj Žižek
Don't let your fear of instantaneous sadness cause you a permanent one. - shereen sherif
God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment! - Dada Bhagwan
There is no permanent ideal of disease resistance, merely the shifting sands of impermanent obsolescence. - Matt Ridley (Author)
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. - Charlie Chaplin
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. - Mahatma Gandhi
Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent the truth of who you are. - Enza Vita
Success is not a destination, it is a journey. Failure is not permanent, it is transient. So continue your journey with intermittent roadblocks. - Debasish Mridha
In 2015 tattoos are more permanent than marriages - E.Grathwohl
Express your unconditional love; kindle someone’s heart. It will leave a permanent mark; you will never be apart. - Debasish Mridha
All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque. - Tom Stoppard
Moments are fleeting. Memories are permanent. Love is forever. - Lynda Cheldelin Fell
Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions. - Nike Thaddeus
Your Real Self is the permanent atom of your identity, the rock of ages that remains unmoved by the restless tides of life. - Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Life needs a constant change, minds needs the constant change, only thing that is permanent in the world is change. - Santosh Kalwar
A permanent pathThat, once illuminated,Goes ever onward a way home… - Scott Hastie
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. - Aristotle
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. - Ursula K. LeGuin
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
Nothing can get spoilt as long the mind is steady, and when it becomes restless, it will spoil. God doesn’t give or take from anyone, but because God is in the permanent blissful state, all external actions will go well when one’s mind is steadied in Him. - Dada Bhagwan
But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent. - Steve Goodier
The easiest mistake to make is to lose sight of your goal. Failure is temporary, but quitting is permanent. Choose wisely. - Kevin J. Donaldson
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. - Samuel Johnson
Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget. - Gabriel García Márquez
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 than the one derived from fear of punishment. - Mahatma Gandhi
Failure is temporary, but defeat is permanent. - Tom Panaggio
There is always a hope for the living.Life is worth living, no matter what situation you may have encounter.No situations is permanent. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Miriam Beard
I love looking up at the stars because they make me believe that some things in this world are permanent. - Mia Sheridan
The most effective and permanent way to silence fears is to face them. - Vironika Tugaleva
Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves. - RVM
When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed. - Dada Bhagwan
Careful.The fall is quick,steep,and permanent. - Jessica Kristie
For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can’t beat the support and encouragement of a friend. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent. - RVM
For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration? - Lena Dunham
Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing is permanent. - Jeanette LeBlanc
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment. - Amit Kalantri
Never plan to make this world your permanent abode, for it is temporal for all, rather permanent your ideas & purpose here. - Auliq-Ice
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,And has the nature of infinity. - William Wordsworth
When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose. - Andy Andrews
A tattoo is permanent; with a marriage you can more easily change your mind. - Carolyn V. Hamilton
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. - ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end. - László Krasznahorkai
His accelerated path to yogihood hit a dead end when his kundalini exploded in a crowded department store. No one else was injured, but Swami caught an inflection which left him with a permanent East Indian accent. - Swami Beyondananda
Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
Today's temporary disappointment means tomorrows permanent appointment. - Auliq-Ice
Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior. - Charles Duhigg
It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about. - John Baddeley
Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up. - Debasish Mridha
The only permanent thing in this world is change. - Totò
Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes - Kjiva
Heaven is no permanent abode of morons even though they may gain entry by sheer virtuosity of their deeds."Ashoka Prasad(Hegelian Lecture) - Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad
The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.
We have yet to establish a permanent Mars colony for this reason: Trying to colonize Mars with humans is a known suicide mission that no one is talking about. - Steven Magee
Life on this planet on its own is temporal. So tell me why you think your problems are permanent. No condition is permanent. - Israelmore Ayivor
Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond. - Conrad Brooks
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishesinto debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,and brings in perennial interest. - Frederick Soddy
Let go of temporary pleasures for a permanent joy. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a weird place, what gonna happen next? No one knows and nothing is permanent here. - Rahul Rawat
Nothing was permanent. . . Nothing will be permanent. . . Nothing is permanent. . .~Ramy(n) - Ramy. . .
Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state which first makes conflict unavoidable and permanent. - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent - Anthony Steyning
Imaginary happiness has an end and real happiness is permanent. - Dada Bhagwan
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. - Aristotle
Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
Gratitude makes blessings permanent. - Raheel Farooq
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. - Mike Ditka
The excellent becomes the permanent.
Jacen reflected bitterly that a large part of growing up seemed to involve watching everything change, and discovering that all changes are permanent. That nothing ever changes back. That you can’t go home again. - Matthew Woodring Stover
Never make permanent eternal decisions based on sense knowledge. - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles. - Charlie Chaplin
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been. - Jodi Picoult
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. - H. L. Mencken
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. - Hunter S. Thompson
I think that as a species we’ve played at being the self-indulgent, spoiled adolescent way too long, and now there are permanent damages and absolute risks that most people are ignoring. - Darrell Calkins
For most of us enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience constantly fluctuating between degrees of wholeness and limited consciousness. I like to call this enlightening-ment. - Jennifer Howard
Don't take life so serious--it ain't nohows permanent. - Walt Kelly
At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent. - Aryn Kyle
This ain't the heartbreak hotel even though I know it well.Those no shows should you tell in the way you hold yourself.Don't you fret should you get another cancellation, give me a chance and I'll make a permanent reservation.In your heart in your, I can tell you fit one more - The Wanted
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
Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes. - Sanober Khan
If something's permanent, it's definitely not love. - Rushabh Patel
Success isn't necessarily permanent - but neither is failure.
It is better to experience temporary discomfort to achieve the dream, than permanent comfort without any fulfillment. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. - Henry David Thoreau
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn Vos Savant
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things - Alexander Hamilton
Every decision, every single one, comes with a price to pay. It means you chose one thing over another, always. Whether you chose right or wrong, that cost remains constant. It's a permanent life tax. That's where taxes come from. - Hubert Martin
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune. - Socrates
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