Permanence Quotes

134 Permanence quotes by 119 unique authors

No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of… — Jessie Bernard
Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. — E. M. Forster
My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did… — Sylvia Pankhurst
I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have… — Richard Tuttle
We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity,… — Kenzo Tange
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows. — Socrates
We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs… — John F. Kennedy
Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the… — Paul Cezanne
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social… — David Vitter
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad… — Germaine Greer
The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions… — Harold Innis
The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence. — Charles Fourier
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether… — G. H. Hardy
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. — Samuel Johnson
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing… — M H Abrams
What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go… — Rama Swami
Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact:… — Rajneesh
If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search… — John Cudahy
Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view of the universe.… — Brooke Westcott
The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the… — Freeman Dyson
I give the moment permanence. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo
God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms. — Sheldon Vanauken
It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence. — Yi-Fu Tuan

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