Definition of Permanent

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Definition of Permanent
	Permanent Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression. Related Definitions: Abiding, Any, As, Change, Character, Continuing, Durable, Fixed, Form, Impression, In, Lasting, Or, Permanent, Remaining, Same, Stable, State, That, The, Without

Permanent Quotations

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.

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

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka

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

Permanent Translations

permanent in Afrikaans is vas
permanent in Dutch is bestendig, gestaag, constant
permanent in Italian is permanente, fisso, durabile
permanent in Latin is proprius
permanent in Portuguese is permanente
permanent in Spanish is asentado, permanente, subsistente

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