“Permanence: Just because they die, she said, doesn't mean they go away.” — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 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
“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
“No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds: Through night or day, cathedral or… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
“There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the… — Andrew Solomon 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
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
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
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
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
“...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
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
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
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana 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
“Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?” — Emily Horner Copy Share Image
God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms. — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite.… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea.” — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
![“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up…” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ed7/michael-dirda-3414_1960s_nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-li_13506.jpg)
