. . . the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.
But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years later, Lazarus died again. Jesus healed the sick, but eventually caught some other disease. He fed the ten thousands, and the next day they were hungry again. But we remember his love. It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to educate for eternity, Eugene England writes: Teaching or learning - with the Spirit of God simply means (though it is not simple) that we are doing so with an eye single to eternal, not worldly, values, with an eye single to lasting development of the mind and spirit and to useful service to others, especially to aid in their lasting development of mind and spirit.
All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland
Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.
You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You're going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.
The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.