Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. — Dianna Daniels Booher Copy Share Image
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next. — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
“Permanence has been swept aside by the rapidity of empty images. The pantheon, we discover to our astonishment, is the doghouse of… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We… — john darnton Copy Share Image
You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact… — James Krenov Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Lament No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds: Through day or night, cathedral… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a… — Jim Anderson Copy Share Image
Perhaps I should say that in general there are three solutions to such a situation. I mean not only in Holland, but… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.” — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“I am the body, and I am the rocks in the pockets, and I am the water. There is no evading myself.” — Belle Townsend Copy Share Image
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