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
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
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
“There's something about the joint witnessing of the world that gives the experience a sense of permanence.” — Mike Carter Copy Share Image
“I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall… — Emily Giffin 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
“Permanence has been swept aside by the rapidity of empty images. The pantheon, we discover to our astonishment, is the doghouse of… — Roberto Bolaño 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
Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and… — George Perkins Marsh 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
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
She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not… — Thomas Pynchon 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
“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
“I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I'm really glad I did not tattoo on my body 'cause I don't want them. So, permanence is a very scary thing… — Stephenie Meyer 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
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I love wood. I love its permanence, its way of changing hue over the years, its way of expanding and contracting, of… — David Linley Copy Share Image
The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for… — David Vitter Copy Share Image
The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“Death was surely not an ephemeral interloper; its lasting effect was grating and horrible and one was constantly reminded of the permanence… — Henry H. Roth Copy Share Image
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Etchings endure, But not in Sand Meanings Collide To Unresolved Fragments Codes fizzle to Static They are not lost But Unheard Never… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our… — Jessie Bernard Copy Share Image
Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Love is one factor - but not the only on - that God uses to promote the permanence of the marriage bond. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
