Quotes About Durability

A obstinação pura e simples é mais durável que a coragem, embora não seja tão

I need to be able to depend on the products I use to stand up to the demands I put on my vehicles.

We always use resin instead of polyurethane, even though it takes more work and is in places where it can't be seen, because resin tends to be more UV stable than urethane.

The horror movie will not go away. Look at the change in the Hollywood landscape as a signifier of its durability. At one point it was just one of many styles of films called 'product' that between, say, 1930 and 1970, the movie city ground out like sausages or hula hoops at a rate of four or five a week.

I don't subscribe to the view some people have in the industry that you should purposefully design products that do not last that long. I don't think it is good for anyone.

Without the low operating costs, high efficiency, high reliability, and great durability of diesel engines, it would have been impossible to reach the extent of globalization that now defines the modern economy.

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest

[We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV.

That words are more durable than anything, that they blow with the wind, hibernate and reawaken, shelter parasitic on the most unlikely hosts, survive and survive and survive.

In a recession, when our wholesale sales are down, our direct sales channels do well because there is no lessened demand for our goods from our loyal customers. In the past, recessions have hurt our competitors and driven customers to us because people became less frivolous in their purchases. They didn't mind paying more for goods that won't go out of style and are of such quality that they will last a long time.

Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.

The durability of the relationship, reflects on your integrity. Give her your trust and she'll give you love.

Firmitas, utilitas, venustas.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I've always used the Peavey Mace equipment. I've got a few of them. They're kind of like Marshalls. You know, we used to use Marshalls, but Peaveys just seem to last longer and push the sound better.

It's a very old wall, a very strong wall, a very strong wall, from which no one can fall, which no one can break open, from which nothing can ever be heard again.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Long live your laundry!

Striking in its insistence and durability is the quest or desire for a decisive criterion with which to differentiate humans from other animals as well as the human from the animal in human beings.

The shingles we install on your roof last a lifetime and are guaranteed to never leak.

Fortunately, ideas already exist for how to achieve every aspect of deconsumer society that appears in this book. Lifespan labeling can encourage product durability: new tax regimes and regulations can favour repair over disposability, job-sharing programs and shorter work days or work weeks can keep people employed in a slower, smaller economy. Redistribution of wealth can reverse income inequality, or prevent it from worsening in a lower-consuming world.