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 is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 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
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.” — Larry McMurtry 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
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
“I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything… — Susan Orlean 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
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
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, the're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing… — Simon Winchester 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
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
I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down,… — Richard Tuttle 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
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
Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour… — Bonaventure 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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds. — Hermann Hesse 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
“Mr. Codro's destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and unchanging,… — Alberto Savinio Copy Share Image
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
