Quotes About Lasting

Second, there is the idea of focusing on whatever has the longest shelf life, while always downplaying the ephemeral.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Daniel Webster, one of America's most famous statesmen, once said: "If we work on marble, it will perish; if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work on immortal souls and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity.

The professed object of war generally is to preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace: but war never did and never will preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace, for it is a divine decree that all nations who take the sword shall perish with the sword. War is no more adapted to preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace than midnight darkness is to produce noonday light.

the end, it is the mystery that lasts and not the explanation.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

Good design doesn't date.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.

Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.

Good design is forever.

The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.