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It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
I've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do.
Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.
I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.
Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.
We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
Yoga is a part of who I am. It has given me a permanent relationship. A relationship between my body, my mind, and my emotions.
I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids.
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
Concern for 'national security' has introduced unprecedented insecurity to living in the United States as a legal permanent resident.
Our troops shouldn't be mired in taking land for the Afghan military, providing force protection and fighting a permanent insurgency.
Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.
I was someone who used to bat up the order. Due to different reasons, I started batting at No. 7, and that became a permanent slot for me.
Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
The people of South Jersey, and local, state, and federal Representatives will not allow a permanent closure of the Atlantic City Rail Line.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.
I am aware of the depths of heartache I'm experiencing but also how foolish it is to think that the things we have are permanent. They're not.
My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.
The Government regularizes illegal slums inhabited by outsiders, but the government workers or policemen do not get permanent house in Mumbai.
Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage.
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.
Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.
I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love.
We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.
Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues.
A permanent, growing fund for student aid will help all Oregonians afford needed education and training and build a path towards a stronger future.
Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.
I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.
My view has always been that marriage means love, and an excellent way of describing your love for another person is to make that permanent commitment.
I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation.
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.