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
“Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. — Elbert Hubbard 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
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
Being afraid of change is a very common yet illogical thing that humans do. Attachment to the idea of permanence causes suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If you wipe a dirty spot off a wall you've removed it, but you haven't eliminated it. You're stuck with a dirty… — Billy Apple 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 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
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
“What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“Permanence was a illusion, and nothin really mattered but now.” — Raymond L. Atkins Copy Share Image
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
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