“Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.”

“These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.”

David Levithan book Every Day

“Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.”

Jim Stanford (1961) Canadian economist

“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”

Daniel H. Wilson book Robopocalypse

“If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

“The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

“Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?”

Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer

“Go out and be assured that that God is going to last forever. Storms might come and go. Our great skyscraping buildings will come and go. Our beautiful automobiles will come and go, but God will be here. Plants may wither, the flowers may fade away, but the word of our God shall stand forever and nothing can ever stop him. All of the P-38s in the world can never reach God. All of our atomic bombs can never reach him. The God that I'm talking about this morning is the God of the universe and the God that will last through the ages. If we are to go forward this morning, we've got to go back and find that God. That is the God that demands and commands our ultimate allegiance.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle