Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply, and I suspect that is why, from as far back as I… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,… — Doris Lessing 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
Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It was a confirmation of a connection that already existed. And it was a bond that extended far beyond the borders of… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all… — Maimonides 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
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
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
“And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence - that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“I had never wanted permanence before, not really, or I had wanted my freedom more; I had accepted that passionate feeling faded,… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea. And they… — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“But was it worth anything? That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand.… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n’est que le prestige d’un moment; l’œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme."… — George Sand Copy Share Image
When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard,… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image