Quotes About Lasting

I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

an action can last for a while, but a spoken, word last forever.

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

A thing of beauty is a job forever.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

give up believing that being able to escape our loneliness is going to bring any lasting happiness or joy or sense of well-being or courage or strength.

The underlying addiction is to this dream of lasting pleasure and comfort.

Trying to get lasting security teaches us a lot, because if we never try to do it, we never notice that it can't be done. Turning our minds toward the dharma speeds up the process of discovery.

She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it forever.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn't have music, I don't think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn't have special moments, we would never find music.

I realize that two years is not a long time. I realize that even ten years is not a long time. But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

There's no way to know if we would have lasted. There's no way to be sure, and plenty of reasons to doubt it. I just wish I'd had the chance. That is one of the things I miss the most— the chance to make it work.