Lasting Quotes

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.