Permanent Quotes - Page 15

• Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

  Ray Metzker

  Photographer, Paradox, Victim

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• The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Real, Confused

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• Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

  Marya Mannes

  Daughter, Orchids, Ribbons

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• Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

  Robert Breault

  Skulls, Mind, Wonder

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• If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

  Robin Williams

  Suicide, Remember, Problem

  "Fictional character: Lance Clayton". "World's Greatest Dad", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

  Aldous Huxley

  Liberty, Population, Growing

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Conquer The World, Arms, Earning

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.288, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

  Gilbert Highet

  Children, Character, Fire

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

  Cyril Connolly

  Education, Disappointment, School

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

  Desmond Morris

  Long, Return, Compliment

  desmond morris (1967). “tha naked ape”

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• A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

  Karl Abraham

  Morning, Expectations, Anxiety

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.197, Karnac Books

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• I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.

  Florence King

  Jobs, Book, Expression

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• A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.

  Paul Davies

  Medicine, Numbers, Exotic

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Care, Minutes

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• I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

  Michael Nesmith

  Ideas, Going Away, Fixed

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a number of identities; I was a child, I was a boy, I was a teenager, I was a middle-aged man, I was an old man. Like other identities I thought would remain constant, they never remained so. Finally, I became very old. . . So which identity remained honest with me?

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Children, Real, Teenager

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (2011). “The Ultimate Medicine: Dialogues with a Realized Master”, p.154, North Atlantic Books

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• Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Money, Play, Done

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1605, Simon and Schuster

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• Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Old Glory

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Body, Too Much

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• Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing fine. And eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. We are now facing a possible dark age which is going to be world-wide and permanent! That's not fun. That's a different thing. But once we have established many worlds, we can do whatever we want as long as we do it one world at a time.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fun, Dark, Moon

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• I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

  Bob Woodward

  Believe, Thinking, Air

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Writing, Men, Alarms

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “Making Waves: Essays”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Writing, Self

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

  Ernst Mach

  Ego, Body, Littles

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Intelligent, Men

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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