Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms. — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?” — Emily Horner Copy Share Image
I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
“Permanence: Just because they die, she said, doesn't mean they go away.” — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. — John Cudahy Copy Share Image
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Being afraid of change is a very common yet illogical thing that humans do. Attachment to the idea of permanence causes suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the world has always taken from you, when it’s constantly tilted and shifted under your feet, it’s hard to attach permanence… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good. ... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry… — Gabriel Brunsdon Copy Share Image
When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“He had lived without her before. He could get over it! In a year or so he'd be able to walk straight… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“...if we seek the permanence of an object as something existing from its own side, we discover something inexpressible. If we take… — Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru Copy Share Image
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
