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Quotes About Enduring

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen.
~ The Talmud
A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy.
~ Theodore H. White
I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.
~ Natalie Prass
Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who won over the long haul. Faulkner or Henry Green? I reckon the surprise champ was P.G. Wodehouse, as elegant and resourceful a prose stylist as anyone held up for our inspection here...he has turned out to be as enduring as anyone apart from Orwell. Jokes, you see. People do like jokes. (Hornby's thoughts after reading Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly)
~ Nick Hornby
It doesn't matter how long it takes. She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. It's how long it lasts.
~ Nora Roberts
Mrs. G: But marriage? I had mine. I had my Charlie. My one. Laurel: Do you believe that? That there's one person? One? Mrs. G: I do, for some of us. For others, if things don't work, or you lose someone, there's another. But for some there's the one, beginning to end. No one else can fit. No one else gets into the heart the same way, and lives there.
~ Nora Roberts
Well, I was wondering if love really last like that, through death and time. It's the only thing that really lasts.
~ Nora Roberts
O amor é uma força constante em qualquer universo.
~ Nora Roberts
A good theory doesn't change its mind: it doesn't apply only to some companies or people, and not to others. It is a general statement of what causes what, and why.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
I will be successful and happy in my career? My relationships with my spouse, my children, and my extended family and close friends become an enduring source of happiness? I live a life of integrity—and stay out of jail?
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The virtues define the character of a person, his enduring relationship to the world, and what will be his end. Whereas values, according to their common usage, are the instruments or components of moral living that the self chooses for itself and that the self may disregard without necessarily jeopardizing its identity.
~ Vigen Guroian
It has the permanent quality of literature.
~ Virginia Woolf
My destiny has been that I remember and must weave together, must plait into one cable the many threads, the thin, the thick, the broken, the enduring of our long history, of our tumultuous and varied day. There is always more to be understood; a discord to be listened for; a falsity to be reprimanded.
~ Virginia Woolf
Fame in our day is too common to be confused with the enduring glow around the deserving book.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I am who I am and always shall be.
~ Laura Elizabeth
Fifty years on, we're still watching her movies and talking about her. That's not a dumb woman – trust me!
~ Lauren Bacall
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
~ Channing Pollock
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
~ Italo Calvino
May your love be modern enough to survive the times, but old fashion enough to last forever.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Our time in this life is temporary, if we live well enough, our legacy will last forever.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
To find such a love so real, so pure and perfect." Is the ending love I have for you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
Kuwait has been a strong partner to the United States, and the royal family has maintained an enduring and sincere friendship with my family for generations.
~ Neil Bush
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.
~ Lois Lowry