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Quotes About Lasting

If my singing leaves a long-lasting effect in the mind of the listeners, it is the blessing of the Almighty.
~ Javed Ali
The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.
~ Lloyd Kaufman
I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.
~ Adepero Oduye
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
~ George Herbert
Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?
~ Joseph Addison
That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.
~ Mitch Albom
everyone knows—that if you blow the opener, nobody remembers anything else.
~ Bill Clinton
You wanted to think something lasted when you loved someone. Some part of that connection remained, that the person stayed inside you in a way. But maybe that wasn't always true. And maybe with someone like Phoebe, you didn't want them lingering on the outskirts of your heart, reminding you how unsafe the world was. Maybe it was better to forget some people completely. If you could. If that was even possible.
~ Blake Nelson
Trump's impact on the country would be lasting. "This degradation of the American experiment is real. This is tangible. Truth is no longer governing the White House statements. Nobody believes—even the people who believe in him somehow believe in him without believing what he says.
~ Bob Woodward
I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.
~ Sylvia Plath
Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' 'No, what?' I would say. 'A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.
~ Sylvia Plath
Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, "Do you know what a poem is, Esther?" "No, what?" I would say. "A piece of dust." Then just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, "So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.
~ Sylvia Plath
It was one of those temporary situations with a whiff of forever about it.
~ T.R. Pearson
For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. from "The Dry Salvages
~ T.S. Eliot
Te prometo una cosa: acordarme de vos a ultimo momento parque sea todavía mas amargo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Why did some images stay with us that way, he wondered, arbitrary flashes of life seared into memory, while others vanished without a trace?
~ Justin Cronin
I guess crushes that have lasted for years don't go away that easily.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
The lines I'm referring to, Lewis, are that Triumph and Disaster are the same. They're both impostors because they are momentary. More important is becoming a man of convictions. Lasting joy comes from that.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I've tried to educate myself in the world and what's beautiful and what has meaning and is lasting. Then I just follow my intuition and see how it fits.
~ Kurt Elling
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
~ Francis Bacon
Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.
~ Francis Bacon
Its insistence upon "knowledge" has no doubt made medieval Muslim civi lization one of great scholarly and scientifi c productivity, and through it, Muslim civilization made its most lasting contribution to mankind.
~ Franz Rosenthal
That's what eternity is made of: invisible, imperishable good stuff.
~ Fred Rogers
Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.
~ Brandon Sanderson