Attributed to Phil Donahue in: Dennis Coon, John Mitterer (2008), Psychology: Modules for Active Learning. p. 553
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. Violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“Everything is temporary, but memories are permanent.”
Umair Ahmad (1997) Entrepreneur, Writer, Researcher & Film Producer
ITF Transport Outlook 2019, (May 22, 2019), OECD Publishing, ISBN 9282108309, 9789282108307
“Suicide is a permanent question.”
Mariel Hemingway (1961) American actress and author
Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family
“This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one”
Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones
Source: The Lovely Bones
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Tyranny of the Status Quo, San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1980) p. 115
“There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Man Who Sold the Moon
The Man Who Sold the Moon (p. 100)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
