Permanent Quotes

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

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.

I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.