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Quotes About Permanent

love is like the sea, sometimes calm and sometimes stormy; it's dangerous, beautiful, death-dealing, life-giving. But never permanent, everchanging.
~ James Clavell
Our party's economic policy will be people-oriented. But our government will neither give doles to the poor and unemployed, nor distribute saris. We will give permanent employment.
~ Mayawati
I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent.
~ Lucas Papademos
It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.
~ James Howard Kunstler
Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.
~ Edmund Burke
The US threatened to withhold badly needed loans to the Jewish state, an unconscionable move that is a permanent stain on the record of Bush.
~ Terry James
In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion.
~ Theodore H. White
What I do know is I've got a brain filled with jokes I can't forget - like a tumor the size of a grapefruit inside of my skull. And I know that eventually even dog shit turns white and stops stinking, but I have this permanent head filled with crap I've been trained my whole life to think is funny.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To make a career of rescuing people is also to create a permanent class in need of rescue.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Adult trouble was more permanent than Aunt Millie smacking you with a hairbrush or his father taking off his belt.
~ Colson Whitehead
He blew out an oath. "The blood bond, Savannah...it's permanent. Unbreakable. It's a sacred thing." His frown deepened. "This isn't the way it's supposed to be.
~ Lara Adrian
You can rèmove a tattoo; it's just difficult. And supposedly it's pretty painful. Some things, on the other hand, can't be undone.
~ Lauren Myracle
Portuguese did not maintain a permanent settlement there. A small abandoned customshouse served as the sole evidence of the Portuguese occupation.
~ Laurence Bergreen
A. B. Bruce summarizes this point: "The careful, painstaking education of the disciples secured that the Teacher's influence on the world should be permanent, that His Kingdom should be founded on deep and indestructible convictions in the minds of a few, not on the shifting sands of superficial impressions on the minds of many."1
~ Greg Ogden
Tenemos entonces un discurso oficial de larga sombra: una tradición revolucionaria, un presente progresista, un futuro de revolución permanente.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
~ Lysander Spooner
It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world.
~ George Edward Woodberry
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
~ Oscar Wilde
Recent research is showing that chronic powerlessness—poverty—stunts brain development in perhaps permanent ways that undermine not only school performance but also the capacity to contribute to society more generally.
~ Dacher Keltner
Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.
~ Chester Bennington
Tattoo the pristine flesh What is permanent anyway? This ink only lasts 'til the grave, Time will decompose That which we did compose.
~ Terri Guillemets
What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, imprinted, eternally seen.
~ Cynthia Ozick, 1985
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
~ H. L. Mencken