Quotes About Lasting

A lot of companies focus on the next big thing. They latch on to what's hot and new. They follow the latest trends and technology. That's a fool's path. You start focusing on fashion instead of substance. You start paying attention to things that are constantly changing instead of things that last.

Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.

Endurance in suffering doesn't grab our attention, but it is a response so important that it will have value that lasts beyond death.

It was just spooky . . . . The Bird-man, the War-man, those guys, and that day we tried to find out something. I don't know if we did, though. Maybe that was the point. Maybe it was something about what's personal. I don't know, but it's lasted a long time.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

If a love encounter is like a good joke, then what is love in its duration and temporality-what is, as we say, a love that lasts?

The magic is over, but its effects will live forever.

Something like inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.

Like first love — or heartbreak — the first government you learn to know stays with you.

Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd, The greater part by hostile time subdu'd; Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past, And Poets once had promis'd they should last.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

What I care about is making sure that when the people watching me put their head to their pillow, I'm the last thing they think about. Not because I hit the coolest moves, not because I'm putting my body on the line for their entertainment, but because I'm captivating.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

I am happy that I could collaborate with poets like O.N.V. Kurup and Yusufali Kechery in my career; they wrote meaningful lyrics, which made my songs last longer.

I'm the classic old-school entrepreneur that says let's build companies of lasting value.

I have met friends that I will stay connected to for the rest of my life.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.