Permanent Quotes

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Death, Nothing, Free

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Political, Nation

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 then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Power, Fear

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Evil, Violence

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

Fool, Yourself, Job

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin

Nothing, Wicked, Troubles

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, State, Observers

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin

Love, Live, Joy

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
Mitt Romney

Work, Long, Political

There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus

Change, Nothing, Except

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Fear, Everything, Else

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.
Steven Wright

Press, Notice, Irons

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman

Government, Nothing, Temporary

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
Mitt Romney

God, History, Greatest

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

Change, Cannot, Reason

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

Giving, Often, Makes

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot

Life, Time, Poetry

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
T. S. Eliot

Moment, Somehow, Dealt

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

Curiosity, Intellect, Vigorous

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

Nature, Dark, Suffering

Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
Orson Welles

Appear, Solid, Untenable

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

Rather, Planet, Sleepy

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

Character, American, Route

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope

Change, Nature, Great

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
Germaine Greer

Husband, Wife, Her

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James Madison

Happiness, Political, Liberty

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Virginia Woolf

Good, Quality, Draw

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