Lasting Quotes - Page 31

• And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

  Robert James Waller

  Knowledge, Gypsy, Remember

  Robert James Waller (1990). “One good road is enough: essays”, Wiley-Blackwell

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• My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.

  Carson Kressley

  Thinking, Helping Someone, People

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

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• Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.

  Paul Levinson

  Space, Civilization, Perspective

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• I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.

  Richard MacDonald

  Art, Years, Creating

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• Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.

  Dennis Prager

  Roots, Hatred, Done

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• But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

  Amy Ray

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Book, Parent, Atmosphere

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

  Jim Thome

  Dad, School, Doors

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

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• Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress of a visit to the popular furniture store can cause serious friction between couples, whether it's disputes over what to buy or spats while you assemble the items that you bought there.

  Juan Williams

  Couple, Stress, Ikea

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City.

  Emmylou Harris

  Nashville, Cities, People

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• Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate. But astral traveling doesn't bring a person lasting happiness. If astral traveling is not done properly, it can be quite dangerous.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Lasting Happiness, People

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

  Harvey Fierstein

  Attitude, Commitment, Goal

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• You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.

  Joni Mitchell

  Inspirational, Laughter, Winning

  Song: Roses Blue, Album: Clouds

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• A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

  Mariama Bâ

  Love, Dream, Men

  "So Long a Letter".

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• I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

  Jeannette Walls

  Spiritual, Book, Important

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• The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.

  David Jeremiah

  People, Giving, Events

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• There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain.

  Russell Page

  Garden, Artist, Skeletons

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• Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to ojas (vitality), we also need to do spiritual practice. With increase in ojas, our intelligence, memory, health and beauty will also increase. We will gain lasting mental quietude.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Spiritual, Children

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• Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

  Owen Feltham

  Friends, Love Is, Flames

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• And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Doors, House, Unity

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• It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.

  Julian Baggini

  Long, Appreciate, Suffering

  "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.

  Stephen Crane

  Dream, Kings, War

  Stephen Crane (1970). “The Works of Stephen Crane Vol. 5: Tales of Adventure”, University of Virginia Press

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• I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.

  Kurt Busch

  Years, Appreciate, Shells

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• There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Loss, Weight, Glory

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• No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Pain

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