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Quotes About Lasting

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.
~ Clive Owen
Un libro ti rimane addosso per una vita intera.
~ Roberto Cotroneo
I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
~ Robin Day
I asked Phil Prentiss what he would do if they never got a baby and he said they'd die with a lot of excess love in their hearts…." "And let's not," Jack said. "Let's spend every drop. On the kids, on our families, on your patients, on the town. On people we don't know yet and the ones who have been our good friends forever. On each other. Let's spend our last drop as we're taking our last breaths.
~ Robyn Carr
It didn't take much to turn a man solitary-being the new guy too often, being controversial now and then, a couple of unsuccessful attempts at a lasting relationship with a woman…
~ Robyn Carr
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The fun and fame do not last, while the memory of a real helper is kept green long after poetry is forgotten and music silent.
~ Louisa May Alcott
because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound.
~ Salman Rushdie
Unbendingness can also be monomania, it can ca be tyranny, and also it can be brittle, whereas what is flexible can also be humane, and strong enough to last.
~ Salmon Rushdie
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
~ Anne Geddes
I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.
~ Boris Yeltsin
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
~ J. Paul Getty
That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance! The Englishman smiled imperceptibly.
~ Alexandre Dumas
when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it's what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love is the thing that lasts.
~ Alice Hoffman
She was partial to emeralds; she said they were the single thing that remained constant, always green, always the same...My mother had been right, it was one thing that lasted, the one thing we could depend on. Other than our love for each other, it was all we had right now.
~ Alice Hoffman
that when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it's what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love is the thing that lasts.
~ Alice Hoffman
She didn't understand that when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it's what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love it the thing that lasts.
~ Alice Hoffman
She heard her mother tell her that when you were loved by someone, you never lost them, no matter what might happen next. Despite the curse, despite the losses you might endure, she knew now that love was the only thing that lasted. It was inside you and with you for all eternity.
~ Alice Hoffman
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.
~ Sylvester Stallone
You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
~ Meg Wolitzer
That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
~ Albert Pike
They were affectionate and consistent by nature, and, thanks to Clive, extremely sensible. Clive knew that ecstasy cannot last, but can carve a channel for something lasting, and he contrived a relation that proved permanent.
~ E.M. Forster
know why those librarians read the old stories to you," Rex says. "Because if it's told well enough, for as long as the story lasts, you get to slip the trap.
~ Anthony Doerr