Dallin H. Oaks Quotes
Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.
Quotes to Explore
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.
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I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly
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and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
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While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
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Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent.
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Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.
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Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
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I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.
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See how they were wrong about what was temporary.
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Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.
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Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.
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Bracelets with white symbols?” Michael made the question casual; in fact, he bent his head and concentrated on tuning his guitar, not that it needed it. Every note sounded perfect as it whispered out of the strings. “Do you remember?” “No.” She felt a pure burst of something that wasn’t quite panic, wasn’t quite excitement. “Does that mean they have Protection?” He hesitated for about a second, just long enough for her to know he was surprised. “You mean condoms?” he asked. “Doesn’t everybody?
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I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
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We are fine whether they film us or not.
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Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.
