The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S. Truman

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.
Ruth Park

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles

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

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Hodding Carter

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Kate Chopin

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.
Hodding Carter

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

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.
Cyril Cusack

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.
Nick Rahall

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.
Mary Astell

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

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
Margaret J. Wheatley

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.
Claire Danes

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
James F. Byrnes

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
Frederick Tennyson