“Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?” — Emily Horner 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
God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms. — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in… — Edward Thorndike 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
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
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
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
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. — Jane Jacobs 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
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked… — Anonymous 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
“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
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy… — Michael Oren 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
Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on… — Diane Keaton 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
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
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