Quotes of: Permanent-peace Keyword

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.

Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

Drown

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

Fancy Pants

Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

On the Heights of Despair

A brick could be used in place of a parachute, and a blanket could be used as a permanent wall of a house. In both cases, the skydiver and home dweller would ideally be a politician. 

Brick

It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle.

Counting by 7s

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

Jesse Eisenberg

Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.

Darren L Johnson

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reaso...

Sarah Palin

If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

1984

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.

The Handmaid's Tale

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on...

Impulse

This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.

Requiem

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Lud-in-the-Mist

Be like a star and shine, whether people care or do not care; the clouds are temporary, but your beauty is permanent.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

Startide Rising

Love's a game where the odds are permanently fixed. The house always wins, and anyone stupid enough to sit at the table is lucky if they walk away with their soul intact.

Thornhill