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Quotes About Durable

I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
contain into new, durable configurations, which can handle huge energy flows without disintegrating. This, we will see, is the characteristic pattern of all such thresholds. New configurations emerge quite suddenly as once independent entities are drawn into new and more ordered patterns, held together by an increasing throughput of free energy (see chapter 4).
~ David Christian
Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.
~ Lionel Shriver
I wasn't brave, but I was stubborn and prideful. Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.
~ Lionel Shriver
Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.
~ Justin Cronin
A common home renovation show refrain is "Why would anyone put linoleum over all this gorgeous hardwood?!" They did this because it was modern, durable, interesting, and easy to clean. Rest assured that when the next generation renovates your house, they're going to be screaming about all the goddamned shiplap.
~ Jen Lancaster
I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.
~ Mary McCormack
Think about doing a bunch of stunts in leather. What does leather do? It doesn't stretch, it rips.
~ Chloe Grace Moretz
To be reborn again, as the Tibetan Book of the Dead says. It really is true. Christ, I hope so. Because in that case we all can meet again. In, as in Winnie-the-Pooh, another part of the forest, where a boy and his bear will always be playing...a category, he thought, imperishable. Like all of us. We will all wind up with Pooh, in a clearer, more durable new place.
~ Philip K. Dick
A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.
~ Jill Lepore
Simply put, Hestan NanoBond cookware is the most durable stainless cookware that I have ever seen.
~ Chris Morocco
I've been blessed to have a body that's durable.
~ Paul Millsap
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
~ Samuel Butler
Stainless steel is durable and does not tarnish. We make it by alloying iron with other metals, most notably nickel and chromium.
~ Joe Schwarcz
A durable, high-powered blender is well worth the investment. I make many of my smoothies, dressings, soups, and desserts with a blender. Since I use whole-food ingredients such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and dried fruit, it is important that the machine have enough power and speed to efficiently process these ingredients to the desired smooth consistency. Inexpensive models will not provide a smooth, creamy texture, and their motors tend to burn out after a month or two of daily use.
~ Joel Fuhrman
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.
~ Larry Constantine
business that makes and sells durable goods faces a problem: As soon as everyone who wants the product has it, then there is no need for more.
~ Donald A. Norman
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.
~ James Madison
the American West quietly became the first and most durable example of the modern welfare state.   The
~ Marc Reisner
Once established for a few generations, civilization might seem durable enough to last forever. But the skin of enlightened self-interest is very delicate, easily eroded, and the human capacity for unspeakable barbarity lies just beneath its surface.
~ John Reader
It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.
~ Jane Hamilton
I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
~ Mario Batali
How many thousands of stories like yours have been told and forgotten how many stories of lovingly durable nurses of hospital sheets of IV tubes dripping saline and morphine How many stories of drugs that would haul you along in their wake for a while but finally let you sink
~ Unknown
The other naturally occurring viruses, like ebola, are not durable enough to generate a runaway epidemic.
~ Unknown