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I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish. -- Mary McCormack
The word of man is the most durable of all material. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. -- Arthur Henderson
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. -- C. S. Lewis
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. -- Samuel Butler
In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile. -- Jonathan Nolan
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. -- Bertolt Brecht
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. -- Ludwig von Mises
For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade. -- James Forrestal
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. -- Bette Davis
Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable. -- Amory Lovins
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. -- John McCain
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. -- Horace
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure. -- George Will
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science. -- Sam Harris
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. -- Annie Besant
I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe. -- Gavyn Davies
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction. -- Samuel E. Morison
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. -- Stephen Leacock
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace. -- Arthur Henderson
Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution. -- Benigno Aquino III
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation. -- Mariella Frostrup
Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it. -- Johnny Isakson
I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I don't mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization. -- Daniel Suarez
The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable. -- Manmohan Singh
Technology is society made durable. -- Bruno Latour
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Love is the most durable power in the world. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why are my least favorite people always the most durable? -- Rebecca
I want to be the most durable person on the planet. -- Jaden Smith
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass. -- Horace
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. -- W. Somerset Maugham
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success. -- Victor Cousin
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. -- Robert Bringhurst
Love is durable. It's like Teflon. ...Trust is like fine china. Secrets destroy trust. -- Iyanla Vanzant
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital. -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . . -- Scott Sanders
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. -- Solon
You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. -- Menander
Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future. -- John Milton
human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent. -- Charles Bukowski
Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost. -- Oscar Wilde
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property. -- James Madison
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief. -- Gore Vidal
I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages. -- Jesse Ball
Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. -- Max Baucus
We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about. -- Keith Ellison
The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years. -- Barbara Holland
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. -- Samuel Johnson
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. -- Larry Constantine
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But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. -- Walter Raleigh
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart. -- Jane Porter
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. -- David Hume
Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer. -- Paul Russell
Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. -- Raymond Chandler
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable. -- Robert Browning
We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed. -- Munia Khan
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion. -- Chuck Todd
Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps! -- Dave Mustaine
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. -- Thomas Overbury
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data. -- Charles Babbage
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active. -- James Forrestal
Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other. -- William J. Clinton
All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent. -- Fisher Ames
Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers. -- Charles Eastman
Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers. -- Charles Eastman
All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values. -- Aldo Leopold
There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable. -- Robin Day
Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation. -- Madeleine Albright
The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace? -- Arthur Henderson
A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. -- Francis Bacon
Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud. -- Charles Duhigg
Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire. -- Henry David Thoreau
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols. -- Czeslaw Milosz
Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away. -- Louise Erdrich
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale. -- Lewis Mumford
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity. -- James Madison
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world. -- Gaston Bachelard
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing. -- Benjamin Franklin
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art. -- Kenneth Clark
Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed. -- James Chiles
I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I will continue to urge creditors to take the steps needed to put Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery because it's in all of our interests that Greece succeeds. -- Barack Obama
A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples. -- Alexander Haig
Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations. -- Willy Brandt
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. -- Joseph Addison
...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing. -- Benjamin Franklin
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race. -- Abraham Lincoln
I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results. -- James Van Allen
The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception. -- Raymond Chandler
Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool... -- Paul Gauguin
Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity. -- Robert Muller
Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure. -- Christopher McDougall
I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before. -- George Mikes
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction. -- Samuel E. Morison

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