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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

Pain is never permanent.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Oscar Wilde

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Jimmy Carter

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus Of Ephesus

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma Gandhi

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 Sterne

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

Sri Chinmoy

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Alexander Hamilton

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Milton Friedman

I might be naïve, but the U.S. is still a democracy, and this is not a permanent situation. And when people will finally answer to what they've done, films like this will exist giving a hint of what happened.

Tarik Saleh

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Charles Sumner

We will ask the new minister to send out invitations to all ministers of communications, when a permanent minister takes office.

Moshe Lilos

A young person may be exposed to a loud noise and cause permanent damage, but a younger ear will compensate and so the effect of that damage is not noticed. As you get older, you lose hearing and the damage becomes more apparent.

Iain Grant

This attack is further evidence that we have no stable and calm situation even in the capital of Afghanistan, ... We are dealing with a permanent threat.

Peter Struck

They don't have a plan; it's incoherent, ... They go to the most expensive [option]. It boggles the mind they would pay for hotels and not pay for vouchers for [permanent] housing.

Shirley Franklin

If (the company) hired permanent replacements, then they don't have to give the strikers their jobs back upon termination of the strike.

Tom Smith

We're now moving into the really big permanent housing phase.

Andrew Steer

Practice makes permanent.

Bobby Robson

Katie is now a permanent fixture here.

Bryant Gumbel

They are great custodians for her, and this is where we think she should stay on a permanent basis.

Jim Lea

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

It would be unreasonable to conclude this will be a permanent change. That balance is going to continue to fluctuate.

Lorie Kessler

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Jane Austen

We hope that soon we will be able to reach such an agreement, which will put our bilateral relations on a permanent status.

Oded Eran

They don't have a permanent license, but they do get first shot.

Rob Mullen

It's a recipe for a permanent underclass.

Jennifer Gordon

I just think it would be more professional to have permanent maps.

Adam Marcoux

This observation suggests a dramatic and perhaps permanent perturbation of the natural history of the disease, maybe even a cure. Longer follow-up will determine whether this interpretation is correct.

Gabriel Hortobagyi

We're hopeful of securing him on loan until the end of the season and then making it permanent after that.

Terry Westley

That would be your permanent fix.

Ron Gebhardtsbauer

It is actually permanent emergency housing.

Marianne Cusato

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

Pat Conroy

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Implementation of Permanent Protection for America's Resources 2000 would be a dream come true for conservationists.

Rodger Schlickeisen

The key is with the Palestinian Authority that must impose law and order ... That is the basis that would allow us to move toward a permanent settlement. The first thing is disarming the terrorist groups.

Amos Gilad

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

I'm looking at it as a permanent thing. I felt better at the linebacker position than I did at the end. It felt more natural to me. You come off the ball, make plays, run and hit.

Alonzo Horton

We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation.

Robert Reich

One of our patients has been here 30 years, and some as little as six months. They thought this was going to be a permanent home for them.

Rita Pacheco

We have a permanent improvement levy coming up. Our community has been good about maintaining it, ... We've just put in a new bus garage and we're in the process of moving everything to it.

Bob Ward

With respect to the North Island, the current total number of permanent Fishery Officers is 115 compared to 88 in 2002, an increase of 30.7%.

Jim Anderton

We just felt there needed to be something out there. If anybody wants to go out there - or if the mom wants to go out there - there'll be a permanent marker out there for the baby girl.

Bob Cutler

Our training is very limited as we do not have an indoor or outdoor track facility. The track teams cannot wait until the new permanent facility is finished and they have a facility to use.

Hank Hoffman

I was very lucky. When the board brought me in as an interim, they were very specific. They said they didn't want to lose momentum and they wanted me to go ahead and act as if I were permanent. They were very generous in encouraging me to face up to the problems.

Hank Brown

More than 12,000 Floridians have successfully found better and more permanent housing solutions for themselves and their families.

Dasha Castillo

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Phil Donahue

This event came on us so fast, so having the permanent wall almost done made this a lot more manageable. It was a great improvement.

Al Grasser

It has the effect of creating a permanent subclass of non-citizens.

Richard Foltin

Now, having a strong, permanent presence across Europe will allow us to serve our clients' needs even more effectively and of course we expect to service the global needs of European customers in the future.

Michael Travis

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Hunter S. Thompson

I think we've come to a point where we understand what we're doing with the moratorium, and we want to make it permanent.

Utah Republican

In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine.

Ted Morgan

We do consider this to be a permanent closure. So, at some point, that mill has got to be dismantled. We don't think that there would be anybody who would be interested in acquiring it.

Peter Gordon

Not prolonging a strike so that employers don't have a justification for hiring permanent replacements.

Brendan Cummins

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

John Leonard

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

Charles Elachi

I thought it was a permanent thing.

Jose Luis

We're excited that it's something permanent, that it will permanently mark the history. We all know it, but we want it to be for our grandchildren.

Susan Turpin

Don't take life so serious--it ain't nohows permanent.

Walt Kelly

The cornerstones of your life are family, religion, philanthropy and compassion. Your relationship with your partner is often destined to be a permanent loving one that survives all obstacles.

Blair Gorman

If this becomes a permanent barrier to employment and volunteering because of the use of this technology, then you're locking in the racial discrimination already in the system and multiplying its effect to a devastating degree.

Ira Glasser

Obviously that's a devastating experience. Once she is in many different places she's going to be psychologically damaged. And she's going to find it harder to find a permanent family, and that's what happens to too many children in the system.

Marsha Lowry

We do not want this to be a permanent thing.

Monica Jones

Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.

Craig Bruce

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Franklin P. Jones

Say if my grandma was a permanent resident, and I know her, we'd both be considered felons.

Daniel Perez

Taxes are usually permanent, but tax cuts aren't.

Peggy Venable

We believe this conservation framework meets the important public request we heard for more permanent conservation.

Jim Lehner

But I'll probably only look at that in January. It'd have to be a permanent situation if I make any decision.

Bryan Robson

As happened this year, we are facing a permanent risk which demands permanent measures.

Antonio Costa

Obviously, some temporary stuff would have been pulled out, but anything permanent would have stayed, and we would have benefited from that.

Albert Carlson

We would like to have a permanent injunction to avoid future litigation should any similar claim come up any time after April 30.

Linda Mcdougall

"Life is like a permanent limp dick, with an occassional blow job" [When told by Phil that life is like a permanent cloudy day, with an occassional sunshine].

Lars Ulrich

I was curious and I said, well, I'm going away for my birthday so I decided to treat myself. It's nice to try something that you know is not permanent.

Tracy Lewis

I believe they are going to finish this, ... We are confident that they will complete this process and continue on the path toward elections for a permanent government at the end of the year.

Condoleezza Rice

We really do have a permanent presence around that planet.

Charles Elachi

The museum existed in some incarnation or another for many years. It moved around as different things, but five years ago we were able to make it to a permanent location. This year we decided to celebrate and host an annual event.

Angela Lawson

There are many benefits; permanent drainage, protection against future flooding and property damage, a safer neighborhood, and minimal impact to Mr. Haas' property.

Darryl Colosi

One woman will rent out her RV for a family until they can find something more permanent here, ... Another couple said they will lend their duplex rent free for as long as it takes until they can get their feet on the ground.

Jack Allen

The pumping in Rolling Hills (Condominiums) may have to be a permanent solution. We may have to issue permits so they can continue to do that.

Fred Mumford

You know the Priory? I've got a permanent room booked there in case I ever think about it.

Philip Green

It's about money, permanent and significant damages. It's also about accountability on the part of the government and the media.

Colin Wood

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Kathleen Norris

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

If their permanent houses are made of the same material, they will not be able to live in them.

Samir Acharya

The board had concerns about how that sign blended with the historic architecture of the area, and also about it being a permanent feature.

Gary Parker

Brazil wants to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council. That means we have to participate in peacekeeping operations, including in Africa. We thus have to know and get along with the countries of Africa better, especially in the area of defense.

Pedro Motta

We don't want to destroy on a permanent basis for a temporary problem.

Robert Adley

The families living in hotels and motels are for the most part receiving financial assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and will continue to do so through February 7, 2006. Some families have found more permanent housing here. An estimated couple dozen school age children from the disaster areas are enrolled in Santa Monica schools.

Robert Chatman

It's not permanent. It's going to go back to the way it was.

Bill Polick

This city is one of the hotbeds for high school talent in the country. It looks like we've found a permanent home.

Sonny Vaccaro

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

H. L. Mencken

People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this place into a [non-permanent] contract-hired staff.

Arnold Amber

Children keep their molars until age 12. Keeping the baby teeth in is also important because they hold the spaces for permanent teeth.

Diane Thomas

And the question is ... is this abolition permanent?

Abri Meiring

It's a very exacting process. You want to do it, and you want it to be permanent; you don't want to have to go back and do it again at some point.

Don C. Skemer

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Freda Adler

No one agency has all the resources. We won't rest until everybody finds a permanent housing solution.

Jim Homstad

It's contingent on when we launch a national search for a permanent dean.

Donald Loppnow

The important thing is that five permanent Security Council members demonstrated a common approach.

Andrei Denisov

It will dispel the notion that the U.S. is a permanent occupying force, a theme used by the insurgents to justify their continued attacks.

Frank Pallone

I really like Andy Kennedy. He's a great guy, but he's going to have the tag of 'interim coach,' which makes it virtually impossible to recruit. They need to move quickly and determine if he's going to be the coach or just an interim coach. You can't do recruiting on a permanent basis, because kids aren't going to make a commitment if they don't know who they are going to play for.

Bob Gibbons

We make sure the individual is actively engaged in finding a permanent residence. At some point they are going to have to resolve their housing issue and move into a permanent location.

Barbara Ellis

My sense on this is that we'll be judged on how well we are able to support the capacity development of this new permanent Iraqi government.

Ambassador Daniel Speckhard

The authorization code allows FEMA to work closely with individuals or family displaced by the hurricane to ensure that they are completely process to make the transition to permanent housing.

Susan Sullivan

Will strive in this term to reach a final status agreement with the Palestinians and to set Israel's permanent boundaries.

Meir Sheetrit

Most growers would like to see some legal means to make it easier to get temporary or permanent labor. But steps should be taken gradually so you don't have any Draconian measures that could affect the industry.

Dana Venrick

In many ways, it's a more permanent medium than many other mediums. It is in many ways larger than life because of the size of the screen. It's a communal experience, something you're not doing in the privacy of your home. So it's appropriate that feature film be the last into it.

Adam Fogelson

The bottom line is whether we will be able to obtain a permanent injunction on eBay's 'Buy-It-Now' operations or whether the court will force a compulsory license.

Scott Robertson

There is a law about the banners themselves and then there is the part about a permanent structure sign being erected without approval, ... I received a complaint from somebody who didn't like looking at them.

William Holland

This is a command that's being relocated here. That's very permanent because it's hard to relocate those. That could be a big thing down the road.

John Seymour

If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.

Cecilia Munoz

What people always want to know is how many concussions is too many, ... From the neuropsychological data that I've examined, there's no doubt that repetitive concussions eventually lead to permanent brain injuries. You may not see symptoms initially, yet chances are good that they'll come back later in life to bite you.

John Rosenberg

These sectors are not pulling their weight. Is the change permanent? I can't say.

Frederick Breimyer

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Yoko Ono

They've been so unabashed about making them permanent. Now that it's a visible piece of their budget, it makes it more front-and-center.

Joel Friedman

No more building permits until they get the permanent land use plan is in effect.

Bill Bowen

I don't want to spend a lot of money on something that may not work. If it does work, we can put something more permanent in.

Jim Funk

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem.

Michael Rubner

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

They made the repairs permanent. We're really confident the Elektron is going to be in great shape.

Michael Fincke

Ideally, Ketchum's interim responsibilities become permanent and instill much needed discipline into Newell's tattered culture, ... buy.

William Schmitz

This can help EPA conduct a risk assessment and develop a permanent and mandatory program. Nobody knows enough to do this yet.

Barbara Karn

Mobile homes are permanent housing, not temporary. Mobile homes are the only housing affordable to a large portion of the population.

Andres Duany

I don't think they (SUV buyers) are terribly concerned yet. I'm not sure buyers believe this price increase is permanent.

Csaba Csere

The formation of right habits is essential to your permanent security. They diminish your chance of falling when assaulted, and they augment your chance of recovery when overthrown.

John Tyndall

Americans want change, not more of the same permanent commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq.

Damien Lavera

Everybody is just really appalled that an 8-year-old would be labeled, even if it's not going in his permanent record.

Tammy Barth

The combination of high-signal intensity and long listening duration is a proven formula for permanent, irreversible hearing loss.

Dean Garstecki

This has been hard on people. People want to move forward and find permanent housing. It's been six-and-a-half months and people want their children in one school, they want to be in one location and want to have dependable transportation and services.

Yvonne Gilliam

Closed politics cannot be a permanent feature of Chinese society, ... It is simply not sustainable.

Robert Zoellick

We look forward to working with the city. The city will benefit from jobs, about 800 permanent as well as millions of dollars in sales tax revenue annually.

John Kline

To continue declaring or insinuating that the new parliament is not legitimate would be a very serious step, such as to create instability and permanent disorder.

Stefano Folli

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Mignon McLaughlin

When we commence construction, it will also be on a permanent facility, not a temporary structure.

Joseph Wright

In the past, it was a fall-back plan, a way to grab some surge capacity. Today, it needs to be a permanent commitment, especially with predicted import growth.

Pat Casey

Kids believe practice makes perfect. It doesn't. It makes permanent.

Mike Jarvis

We will also seek a permanent adoptive family, ... I can look everyone straight in the eye and tell you this girl is going to go to a strong family.

John Mattingly

This architecture will not give us lasting trade peace. It's permanent managed trade.

Carl Grenier

Some parents don't always have the resources like a car, a phone or even a permanent home in case of an emergency. We will work with them to make a plan and know what to do.

Jenny Pitkin

A lot of talk at the time was, 'Well, there goes the wooden city. Now we can build something grander and more permanent, ... But it is precisely the old wooden city of New Orleans that people love.

Lawrence Vale

I think it saves families a lot of money. If it's a permanent thing, I think it definitely will help families out.

Scott Mclaughlin

Enlightenment begins with disillusionment, is fueled by the perceived benefit of change and is made permanent by the creation and protection of a new order in place of the old.

James Mullen

Students will have more permanent housing. It's always nice to get them out of the portables.

Marilyn Gilbert

The doctor initially said it could be permanent and that was such a knock for us all.

Paul Dodge

I am missing all those people but no situation is permanent. I have learned more about Uganda in these last two weeks than in the four years I have been here.

Peter Waldron

These things move slowly, but it looks like we've found a permanent home. It looks like it's going to be a pretty good-size basement space.

Jeff Dean

I know what I'm doing is of value. I have a job. I like what I'm doing, but people look at you differently when you don't have a permanent address.

Adrienne Camfield

The sooner we can build a permanent building, the better it is. As with all things, construction costs go up.

Patrick Taylor

Jerry was enthusiastically voted into the permanent position by the board. We all feel very strongly that he will continue to do a good job, and will lead this organization into the next decade quite smoothly.

Jerry Magoon

There's no way of telling whether Katrina and its impact will be a temporary disruption or whether it will be more permanent damage to infrastructure in the Gulf.

Allan Urlis

For the federal government, combating attacks on America's houses of worship will remain a permanent priority.

Bill Lann Lee

The plaintiff asked for a permanent injunction to affect individuals other than the two defendants who have agreed to this.

David Sobel

We would have as many as 10 to 15 permanent faculty available at University Park next fall. Several of them would be new faculty rather than existing faculty members.

Kelly Jones

If we see that you need to set up an office at the business center, then we'll discuss a more permanent arrangement.

Marsha Davis

You have four crew for seven to 10 days. Then, if you found a site of particular interest, you would want to set up a permanent outpost there.

Larry Toups

The government still hasn't purchased the land yet for building permanent housing, even though the NGOs are ready to go with funding.

Karen Kayser

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

Barbara Boxer

We opened earlier than we had anticipated. Our permanent sign is not here, and we have not advertised yet.

Gail Thompson

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

Lord Palmerston

The shirts are permanent and once they are made, they can't take it back even if the event gets cancelled.

Maressa Mendeola

We're not giving any opinion with regard to what's going on there. We don't know if replacements are permanent or temporary. We don't look into that until after the election occurs, if the election is challenged.

Tom Smith

The two murals are going to be just as they were - a permanent part of the courtroom. They are going to be reinstalled in the same way, and they're not going to be hung like a picture. They will be put into the wall just like they were painted in the new location.

Commissioner Norman Wimer

We don't know at this point whether these are going to be permanent episodes of heart damage or transient.

Gabriel Hortobagyi

We've seen these cycles of ebb and flow half a dozen times or more since the war began. One can hope that this is a permanent decline, but it's still much too early to reach that conclusion.

Ted Carpenter

If this issue is not resolved by January, we need to have I think a more permanent resolution. Once we get beyond January, we may need to actually have an election.

Dave Weldon

We'll be periodically visiting all those families and talk with them and try to understand what their permanent housing plans are going to be and how we can help them get there.

Gil Jamieson

It's imperative that something positive comes out of the negotiations in Geneva. The cease-fire agreement serves as the basis for a permanent peace settlement.

Helen Olafsdottir

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Margery Allingham

We have to accept that there's a permanent repository 16 miles from my house.

Morgan Rafferty

We wanted to be able to build an infrastructure; we wanted to be able to make this a permanent industry here. So, when the hurricane did hit, it was important to realize that this is a very mobile industry.

Alex Schott

A back injury, while it may not be life-threatening, can disable people for an extraordinary length of time, and can, in some cases, affect their quality of life in a permanent way. The cost gets passed on to everyone.

Alan Mcmillan

To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.

Martin Van Buren

Then I'll be back here talking to you. This thing is not a permanent fix ... (and) we hope to have some other solutions.

Jean Turner

All the attention turns to the district court. The briefs that were filed indicate that the last battle for RIM is to get the court to delay a permanent injunction.

Brian Ferguson

Before him it was a movable capital, they moved it from here to there. But he founded a permanent capital in 1632, and he decided also to have his own palace.

Daniel Tesfaye

Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.

Dan Ryan

Now (employers) are beginning to feel the talent crunch as their permanent staff begins to move to other opportunities.

Sherri Phillipi

What the doctors told me is that it wasn't necessary to cut into his brain, so we're hopeful that there will not be any permanent damage and that he will have a full recovery. So far, things are looking better. He has moved his arms and legs and his eyes are alert.

Roger Legeay

We are electing a permanent government, so more people will be interested.

Michael Youash

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

Benjamin Harrison

A lot of families living in hotels just need that extra nudge (to find more permanent housing).

Nicole Andrews

He thinks it's best to send people out to smaller facilities and individual homes and help integrate them into communities across Georgia. A lot of these people are going to become permanent Georgians. The quicker we can get them into individual communities, the better.

Dan Mclagan

Iraq is a member of the United Nations, and it is attacked and invaded by two permanent members who are supposed to be the defenders of the charter and international law. This is outrageous.

Yahya Mahmassani

According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

Daniel Howell

Projections through 2010 are good, ... It's unusual that we will be able to open a new building without a tax rate increase. All you have to do is go up and down the county and you see the construction. We need a new, permanent building.

Patrick Taylor

We now believe that this situation is more permanent in nature and we must reduce our U.S. manufacturing capacity accordingly and utilize only our most modern facilities to be competitive.

George Henderson

The players really like the idea of having a permanent home where the team can feel comfortable, get more support from the fans and where our opponents will feel uncomfortable.

Fernando Torres

We will cause permanent damage if we now try to follow shortcuts.

Mpumelelo Tshume

Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way.

Rudy Giuliani

His accomplishments will serve as a significant part of this organization's permanent history and lore.

Mark Sauer

We've had a 98 percent success rate with people remaining in permanent housing for more than two years.

Lin Laing

Kids are more likely to do permanent damage. This is something he would do.

Gary Mcdonald

That's one of the benefits of being a permanent resident of Florida.

Dr. Mike Wells

Los Alamos County is contributing to the recognition of our 25th Anniversary through a generous gift of $20,000 for the purchase of a permanent outdoor sculpture for the campus.

Carlos Ramirez

This merger would give General Dynamics a permanent monopoly in nuclear submarines and would substantially lessen competition in surface combatants.

Charles A. James

I don't think anybody has a permanent solution.

Carlos Ramos