We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against… — Alan Watts 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
Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence. — Barbara Taylor Bradford 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
“Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were)… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
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
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
“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
“For, dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough, and not a… — Robert Frost 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
Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is… — Germaine Greer 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
I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain 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
We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the… — D. H. Lawrence 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
“Permanence was a illusion, and nothin really mattered but now.” — Raymond L. Atkins Copy Share Image
The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so… — Leonard Jacobson 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
