“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
Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
“Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“...what do all the objects in the world have in common if not the fact of being- and of being nothing but-… — Jacques Roubaud 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
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
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into… — Barry Finnerty Copy Share Image
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. — Jean-Henri Fabre 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
“The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will… — Vironika Tugaleva 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
If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions.… — John Cudahy 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
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
“Once these two had been joined together in love, or something like love; they had made two babies, and yet, only fifteen… — Orson Scott Card 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
"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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?” — Emily Horner Copy Share Image
God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms. — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
