Quotes About Durability

I wish I were not the me that I know, that I be some unfeeling hunk of plastic, designed to take all punishment but also durable and almost indestructible.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

The sofa is a really important investment for anybody, and I don't mean financially. You need to find a really great sofa that can transition with you, and you can build from there.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven.

Atoms, in short, are very abundant. They are also fantastically durable. Because they are so long lived, atoms really get around. Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-- up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-- probably once belonged to Shakespeare.

Over time, each of these principal groupings split into further subdivisions, of which some prospered and some faltered. Anapsids gave rise to the turtles, which for a time, perhaps a touch improbably, appeared poised to predominate as the planet's most advanced and deadly species, before an evolutionary lurch let them settle for durability rather than dominance.

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.

If you invest in something a little more expensive with longevity, you'll use it more.

Denim should always be comfortable; jeans should protect you. They are workwear.

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities have been decayed and demolished?

You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.

Siempre te ríes cuando no debes; te consideran cruel y despiadado, cuando, en realidad, eres simplemente resistente y duradero. Pero, si te ríes cuando los otros ríen y lloras cuando los otros lloran, en ese caso tienes que prepararte para morir como ellos mueren y para vivir como ellos viven. Eso significa estar en lo cierto y llevar la peor parte al mismo tiempo. Significa estar muerto, cuando estás vivo, y estar vivo solo cuando estás muerto.

Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.

Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up.

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.

Words, I guess, are her more durable artifacts.

My findings may not be watertight, but they are more than seaworthy.

My lord, like one's cranium, it will endure till broken.

Musashi. As one of the two most heavily armored ships in the world, she could take a great deal of punishment, and she had—more than twenty bomb hits topside, and about nineteen or twenty torpedoes below the waterline, including fifteen in her port side.

The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

I don't know how long 'The Vlog Squad' will last, but I think for YouTube, as long as you adapt it can last a while.