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Quotes About Permanent

He would talk in a hoarse whisper for months, and his left shoulder would develop a permanent droop.
~ Harry N. MacLean
When you thought of permanent oblivion, temporary oblivion was the only foxhole you had.
~ Harry Turtledove
I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul.
~ Leelee Sobieski
You can't see it on me, but hidden in the depths of my life is the permanent opinion that a match is a wicked thing. This is wrong, of course. It's nonsense. A match is only as wicked as the person who is using it.
~ Lemony Snicket
You know when we came out of the clinic, and we saw those flower beds that we hadn't seen when we were walking in? That was so unexpected, I think it made me delirious somehow. And then it seemed like if we just threw off all restraints and talked wildly and ate wildly and shopped wildly, it would just turn up the delirium, and make it even better, or permanent somehow...
~ Jane Smiley
I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.
~ Claire McCaskill
Concern for 'national security' has introduced unprecedented insecurity to living in the United States as a legal permanent resident.
~ Rashida Tlaib
Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.
~ Antonio Guterres
In other words, I was risking an unlikely and temporary 3 or 4 for a probable and permanent 9 or 10,
~ Timothy Ferriss
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
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.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
You have the freedom to change your mind as long as those decisions are beneficial, in line with God's Word, and don't permanently harm the people around you. The decisions you make about your life might hurt other people, but remember, there is a difference between causing someone necessary hurt and causing someone permanent harm.
~ Unknown
Chögyam Trungpa put it, "Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
~ Pema Chodron
There had been many signs during the Conference that the Soviet Government sincerely desired permanent friendship with Britain and the United States.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I am at this instant in a white void awaiting the next instant. Measuring time is just a working hypothesis. But whatever exists is perishable and this forces us to measure immutable and permanent time. It never began and never will end. Never.
~ Clarice Lispector
For the Enemy is permanent. He is not in the emergency situation but in the normal state of affairs. He threatens in peace as much as in war (and perhaps more than in war); he is thus being built into the system as a cohesive power.
~ Herbert Marcuse
May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into "permanent session" — what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!
~ Hilary Mantel
Amy, who was handling lockdown far better than her friends, because they had never experienced the permanent low-level sense of existential dread that Amy had been experiencing since she was eight years old.
~ Liane Moriarty
Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.
~ Stephenie Meyer
While I'm happy for everyone who wants a family, I look at the notion of having kids the same way I look at people who get tattoos on their faces, like, "Hoo-boy, that's permanent.
~ Jen Lancaster
I never felt a biological tug looking at children. It's not that I'm missing maternal feelings, it's more like they apply only to cats and dogs, possibly small monkeys. While I'm happy for everyone who wants a family, I look at the notion of having kids the same way I look at people who get tattoos on their faces, like, "Hoo-boy, that's permanent.
~ Jen Lancaster
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
~ Jeremy Bentham