| "There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things." »Robert Lynd |
| "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Success is never permanent, and failure is never final." »Mike Ditka |
| "The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent." »Yvonne De Gaulle |
| "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." »Mike Ditka |
| "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." »Charlie Chaplin |
| "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant |
| "It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant |
| "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." »Miriam Beard |
| "The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next." »Ursula K. LeGuin |
| "You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing." »Aristotle |
| "In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary." »Kathleen Norris |
| "The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy |
| "'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington |
| "If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare programs)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding." »Dean Gooderham Acheson |
| "The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself." »Marcel Proust |
| "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." »Alexander Tyler |
| "Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies." »Romare Beardon |
| "Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." »Jean Kerr |
| "The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation." »Pope John Paul II |
| "I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." »Jack London |
| "In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude." »Charles Caleb Colton |
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