Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.
Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.
I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent.
The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.
What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
The presidency is temporary - but the family is permanent.
Motivation is temporary. Inspiration is permanent.
Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity, unfortunately, is permanent.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Nothing is more permanent than the temporary.
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.