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Quotes About Permanent

For many borderlines, "out of sight, out of mind" is an excruciatingly real truism. Panic sets in when the borderline is separated from a loved one because the separation feels permanent.
~ Jerold J. Kreisman
Your choices, your words, and every move you make are permanent. Life is lived in indelible ink, boy. Wake up. You're making little bitty brushstrokes every minute you walk around on this earth. And with those tiny brushstrokes, you are creating the painting that your life will ultimately become—a masterpiece or a disaster.
~ Andy Andrews
Memory is more indelible than ink.
~ Anita Loos
Are you setting me up?" "Dear God in heaven, no! She's sworn off relationships with men, so you're safe. Besides, I don't think anything permanent would work with you." She paused. "I was thinking more along the lines of a fling." "Jesus Christ," Jake muttered, running a hand down his face. "You're pimping me out.
~ Ann Bruce
If you look at Washington right now, we do not have a system that the Founding Fathers envisioned, where people go to Washington and be part of the servant class. Instead, we have a permanent political class that fashions itself the rulers of the people.
~ Ron DeSantis
In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?
~ Li Lu
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
~ George Washington
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
~ Milton Friedman
Here's the problem: the so-called 'millionaire surtax' is a permanent tax to pay for a temporary benefit.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.
~ Ric Keller
Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
~ Mark McKinnon
curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
~ Robert Goldsborough
There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
~ Robert Lynd
Whoever considers the nature of our government with discernment will see that though obstacles and delays will frequently stand in the way of the adoption of good measures, yet when once adopted, they are likely to be stable and permanent. It will be far more difficult to undo than to do.
~ Ron Chernow
July 10, 1790, the House approved the Residence Act, designating Philadelphia as the temporary capital and a ten-mile-square site on the Potomac as the permanent site.
~ Ron Chernow
The reason-emotion dichotomy, however, cuts off this possibility; by teaching that emotions are independent of thought, it makes permanent the feeling of metaphysical helplessness.
~ Leonard Peikoff
Imaginary happiness has an "end" and real happiness is "permanent".
~ Dada Bhagwan
We were tiny creatures, really; tiny and afraid, trying to hold our place on the little platform that was our earth. So while the world about us might seem so solid, so permanent, it was not really. We were all at the mercy of chance, no matter how confident we felt, hostages to our own human frailty.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Is desensitization a transitory or a permanent byproduct of media violence? Can people become resensitized to real-world violence?
~ Douglas A. Gentile
As Christ teaches us the nature of abiding, we see that He is not contrasting abiding with not abiding. The contrast is rather between abiding temporarily and abiding permanently. In this fallen world, apostasy, church discipline, fruitlessness, rebuke, and scandal are to be expected. The house of Christ still has slaves and sons, and we should not be surprised when the differences between them become manifest.
~ Douglas Wilson
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
~ Mark Steyn
And so began a vicious economic spiral. "It's a marvel, looking back on it now," Lippmann would later write ruefully, "that we could ever have so completely thought that a boom under such treacherous conditions was permanent."126
~ Jill Lepore
Events, however, are written in ink the moment they occur, and cannot be erased.
~ Jo Beverley
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
~ Germaine Greer