The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
Grass never grows again where my horse has once trodden.
Attila the Hun
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!
Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.
My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
I've learned when you drink Absolut straight, it burns enough to give my chest hairs a perm.
Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.
It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
Gun violence is real. People don't come back.
No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
What no one tells you - or maybe they did tell me, and I chose not to listen - is that there's really no 'coming back' from bleached platinum hair. You sort of have to cut it all off and start over.
TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.
The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
Even now with the operation, with the damage done, my ankle probably is never going to be back to 100 per cent.
Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.
A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses
Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah
Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
But there are some wounds that can never be healed.
I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.
And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed
But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?
