Enduring Quotes
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Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference .
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More Enduring Quotes
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
christopher hitchens— As quoted in Merchey, Jason (2004). Values of the Wise : Aspiring to "The Life of Value". p. 330.
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
— Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick (1851), Ch. 104 : The Fossil Whale
Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
— Edward Hopper 'statement by the Chairman of the Jury', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1951, p. 7
He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead; Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1821Adonais, stanza 38.
The vast material resources of Oregon furnish a solid and enduring basis for the spirit of enterprise that animates our people, and for that wonderful superstructure of vigorous and thrifty statehood which we are rearing here on this western shore of the continent.
— Stephen F. Chadwick (1878). Governor Stephen F. Chadwick - Biennial Message, 1878. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State. Source: Biennial Message of Gov. S. F. Chadwick, to the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon Tenth Regular Session-1878 329 Governor’s Message.
[T]he Jews are enduring their present troubles because of Christ.
john chrysostom— Eight Homilies Against the Jews, Homily 6
Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.
ursula goodenough— p xxi (The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998))
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.
peter weiss— Dante (written 1963, published 2003)
And our enduring strength is also reflected in our respect for an international system that protects the rights of both nations and people -- a United Nations and a Universal Declaration of Human Rights; international law and the means to enforce those laws. But we also know that those rules are not self-executing; they depend on people and nations of goodwill continually affirming them.
— Barack Obama, Address to European Youth delivered on March 26, 2014 at Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, Belgium
Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors , and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK . However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers .
james berardinelli— Review of Natural Born Killers (1994)
Somehow, women’s romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said “No”. They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which the woman rejects the hand of her gentler lover who saves her from the rapist and marries the man who repeatedly and savagely rapes her. It is this “marry the rapist” theme that not only turned Sweet Savage Love into a best-seller but also into one of women’s most enduring romance novels.
warren farrell— p. 315. (Part III: Government as substitute husband)
This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.
david gemmell— Ch. 12 (Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde)
We must make, if we can, an enduring peace. That is why I feel so strongly regarding the proposal to hand over two million Germans to the Poles, who are an inferior people so far as concerns the experience and capacity for government. We do not want to create another Alsace-Lorraine.
david lloyd george— Lord Riddell's diary entry (28 March 1919), J. M. McEwen (ed.), The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923 (London: The Athlone Press, 1986), p. 262.
You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.
Peter Greenaway— One of the calligraphers
There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity. Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased All that thou thinkest, sayest, or doest bears perpetual record of itself, enduring for Eternity.
pythagoras— As quoted in Pythagoron: The Religious, Moral, and Ethical Teachings of Pythagoras (1947) by Hobart Huson, p. 99
Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.
kenneth rexroth— "World War II"
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— St. XXX (Adonais (1821))
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
italo svevo— Paul Bailey, in The Independent, September 24, 1999. [1]
Partisan of both “Madras” and “Chennai” used those names to assert that the city was, from its inception, a volatile borderland , a point of contact, mixing, hybridity . For its part “Chennai” suggests the frontier of pre-modern empire , whereas “Madras” is a frontier of modern imperial expansion. Both names, however, assert that the city is a “glocality” – a global entrepot in which diverse population , exchange media , languages , and ideas were brought into intimate and enduring relationships, and, more recently, a product of and staging ground for globalizing capitalism .
— Mary E. Hancock, modified the word ‘glocalisation’, coined by Roland Robertson to capture the articulation of global and local forces in the article “Globalization or Glocalization” published in the Journal of International Commemoration 1, no. 1 (1994):33-53, quoted in pp. 54, 227
Pondicherry’s ancient history is from the Vedic era. The Roams traded here 2 millennia ago, and the Portuguese arrived in 1521 Dutch and Danish traders followed, but it was the French - who purchased the town in the late 17th century, only relinquishing their hold in 1954 – who left by far the most enduring legacy .
— Pippa de Bruyn, et al, in Frommer's India (18-February 2010), p. 337
The friendship between Iran and the United States, strong and enduring, has been enriched by the shared experiences of our two nations.
— Lyndon B. Johnson, "Message to the Shah of Iran on the 25th Anniversary of His Reign.," September 16, 1965. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. .
Surely the cosmic irony that loves men's dullness because it alone can preserve them from madness, and retorts upon the cosmic terrors with a jest, is higher than gallantry and more enduring. It arrives at tolerance for all human shortcomings; it embraces high and low in its sympathies; it achieves urbanity as a final goal. It is the stuff of which great literature is made.
— Vernon Louis Parrington, reviewing the work of James Branch Cabell in The Pacific Review (December 1921), later published in Main Currents in American Thought (1927)
We must watch over pious impressions, and cultivate them, or they will never become vigorous and enduring.
— William Ellery Channing, p. 454. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Every thing here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?
william ellery channing— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
[T]he Jews are enduring their present troubles because of Christ.
— Eight Homilies Against the Jews, Homily 6
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
william h. seward— Speech, The Irrepressible Conflict. Oct. 25, 1858.
[T]he Jews are enduring their present troubles because of Christ.
— John Chrysostom (349–ca. 407), Eight Homilies Against the Jews, Homily 6.
