Enduring Quotes
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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.
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Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference .
— Dee Hock, in Birth of the Chaordic Age, p.198
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.
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
For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.
— 2002 Speaking in Tokyo, Japan,18 Feb.
Baedeker is astonishingly enduring; travellers can use nineteenth-century editions with confidence, providing they take some elementary precautions. Many hotels will long since have disappeared, and the prices will be somewhat different, but if Baedeker says'On leaving the tunnel, the best view is on the right', it probably still is, unless somebody has shifted the mountain, and his descriptions of sceneryand where to go to see it at its best are still valid, as ispracticallyall of his potted history.
(Henry) Bernard Levin— 1985 Hannibal's Footsteps.
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. 564
Herman Melville— 1851Moby Dick, ch.104.
Today's results put an end to speculation, but our son's beautiful spirit and enduring memory will forever remain in our hearts. While no medications were taken in excess, we learned today the combination of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy. Heath's accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication, even at low dosage.
heath ledger— Kim Ledger, in a written public statement, released through Mara Buxbaum, Heath Ledger’s publicist, on February 6, 2008, commenting on Dr. Hirsch's official statement released to the media that day, as quoted above. Sewell Chan and James Barron (contributing) (February 6, 2008). "City Room: Heath Ledger's Death Is Ruled an Accident" (Web). The New York Times (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com (The New York Times Company)). Retrieved on 2008-08-22.
As Gloria Steinem said about Ginger Rogers: She was doing everything Fred Astaire was doing, just doing it backwards in high heels. Well, Southern women are doing and enduring what other women have to do and endure, but (at least until recently) they had to do it in heels and hats and white gloves and makeup and a sweet smile, with maybe a glass of bourbon and a cigarette to get them through the magnolia part of being a steel magnolia.
michael malone— January Magazine (January 2002).
My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.
Mordecai Richler— Reported in Donald Smith, D'une nation à l'autre: des deux solitudes à la cohabitation (Montreal: Éditions Alain Stanké, 1997), p. 61.
Surely a limit boundet every woe,But mine enduring anguish hath no end
nina salaman— Poem A Song of Redemption
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.
kenneth clark— Ch. I: The Naked and the Nude
To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.
fernando j. "corby" corbató— p. 77 (On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991))
At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some.
elaine dundy— Life Itself (2001)
The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.
warren farrell— p. 91. (Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988))
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.
jonathan ive— Ive explaining the design philosophy behind iOS 7 in its product video, shown at WWDC 2013.
Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history .
john maynard keynes— Ch. 3 (The End of Laissez-faire (1926))
Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.
Irving Kristol— New York Times Magazine, December 20, 1964
According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.
albert jay nock— p. 314 (Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943))
Because anarchism is in its essence an anti-dogmatic and unstructured cluster of related attitudes, which does not depend for its existence on any enduring organization, it can flourish when circumstances are favourable and then, like a desert plant, lie dormant for seasons and even for years, waiting for the rains that will make it burgeon. Unlike an ordinary political faith, in which the church-party becomes the vehicle of the dogma, it does not need a movement to carry it forward…
George Woodcock— Postscript (July 1973)
My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Miguel de Cervantes— Miguel de Cervantes, The Little Gypsy.
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and to guide his life with understanding. Through Science he will be freed from the fetters of superstition; through faith in Science he will acquire a new and enduring delight in the exercise of his capacities; he will gain a zest and interest in life such as the present phase of culture fails to supply.
— Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, "Biology and the State", The Advancement of Science: Occasional Essays & Addresses (1890), 108-9.
Surely a limit boundet every woe, But mine enduring anguish hath no end
— Poem A Song of Redemption
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
— Aldous Huxley, "Sacred Jewels of Yoga: Wisdom from India's Beloved Scriptures, Teachers, Masters, and Monk"
Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.
john maynard keynes— John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-faire (1926). Full text online
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusetts the common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrant will not be and could not be forgotten in the Nation's Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.
— John F. Kennedy, address to the Massachusetts legislature (January 9, 1961); reported in Congressional Record (January 10, 1961), vol. 107, Appendix, p. A169.
Patience is enduring love; experience is perfecting love; and hope is exulting love.
— Alexander Dickson, p. 442. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Plato's most enduring influence on science was his advice to approach the study of nature as an exercise in geometry. Through this "geometrization of nature," which could best be done in disciplines that could be suitably idealized, such as astronomy, one can formulate laws that are as "certain" as those in geometry. As Plato has Socrates remark in the Republic : "Let's study astronomy by means of problems, as we do in geometry, and leave the things in the sky alone."
— Note that Plato's influence in this regard, may be traced to the Pythagoreans.
— John Freely, Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe (2012)
For nearly a thousand years they have continued to read and to listen to recitations from his [Ferdowsi] masterwork [Shahnameh], the Sh?h-n?meh, in which the Persian national epic found its final and enduring form. Though written about 1,000 years ago, this work is as intelligible to the average, modern Iranian as the King James version of the Bible is to a modern English-speaker.
— J. E. Luebering, in Ferdowsi on Shahnameh 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time, The Rosen Publishing Group, 20 December 2009, p.45
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.
— As quoted in Pythagoron: The Religious, Moral, and Ethical Teachings of Pythagoras (1947) by Hobart Huson, p. 99
