Lasting Quotes - Page 20

• People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.

  Janette Rallison

  Night, Sky, People

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.148, Penguin

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• The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Spring, Book, Writing

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

  William Morris Hunt

  Art, Book, Men

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• There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

  Paulo Coelho

  Tragedy, Needs, Reason

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 26, 2014

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• Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

  Andre Agassi

  Motivational, Helping Others, Perfection

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• That lasting things do, in fact, last.

  David Levithan

  Lasts, Facts

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

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• The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

  William Arthur Ward

  Giving, Joy, Thrill

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• Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from relief at the sound of his voice. Trey released my arm and shrugged, grinning. “I just wanted an oyster, and she wouldn’t serve me.” I opened my mouth to protest when the warm fingers holding my arm softly squeezed me for reassurance. So, I stayed quiet. “Jason, please escort your friend to the door. I have no other reason to speak with him unless Sadie has a bruise or any lasting marks from his hands, and then he will see me again.

  Abbi Glines

  Doors, Hands, Oysters

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• Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.

  Janet Morris

  Peace, War, Conflict

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Regret, Reading

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.43

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• If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

  Augustus

  Rome, Wife, Nuisance

  The Julian marriage laws (nos. 120-123, etc.), www.unrv.com.

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• There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lasting Happiness, Boredom, Balance

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Real, Past

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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• Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

  Jean Monnet

  Men, Institutions

  Jean Monnet (1978). “Memoirs”

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• I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people in the state of Israel forever.

  Ariel Sharon

  Believe, Winning, Rights

  "I am for lasting peace". Ariel Sharon at New York Post Forum, November 13, 2000.

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• Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

  Eero Saarinen

  Rivers, Arches, Domes

  "Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect".

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• I think [game music] is something that should last with the player. It's interesting because it can't just be some random music, but something that can make its way into the player's heart. In that sense, this not only applies to game music, but I feel very strongly about composing songs that will leave a lasting impressionWhat I must not forget is that it must be entertaining to those who are listening. I don't think there's much else to it, to be honest. I don't do anything too audacious, so as long as the listeners like it, or feel that it's a really great song, then I've done my job.

  Yasunori Mitsuda

  Song, Jobs, Heart

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• Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Beautiful, Bob, Singers

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• Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves.

  Mike Markkula

  Company, Know How, Knows

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• I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

  Lauren Bacall

  Years, Forever, Married

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

  Maggie Smith

  Believe, Past, Fifty

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• I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Gratitude, Long, Doe

  Speech at appointment as a Goodwill Ambassador, www.unicef.org. 1989.

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• I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Fun, Memorable, Character

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• In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

  Ikujiro Nonaka

  Economy, Advantage, Source

  Ikujiro Nonaka (2008). “The Knowledge-Creating Company”, p.7, Harvard Business Review Press

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