“Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?” — Emily Horner Copy Share Image
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. — Jane Jacobs 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
“He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.” — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment” — Sunday Adelaja 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
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such… — Edward Thorndike 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
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
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
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. — Samuel Johnson 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
The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
“(1) personalization—the belief that we are at fault; (2) pervasiveness—the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and… — Sheryl Sandberg 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
“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
The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on… — Buzz Aldrin 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
“...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
“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
“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
“Growing up in an old city, you learn history's one true lesson: that history fades. Nothing sticks together for very long without… — Josephine Humphreys 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
