Permanence Quotes

134 Permanence quotes by 119 unique authors

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it. — Norman Granz
In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength,… — Rachel Naomi Remen
The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to the safety and… — Zachary Taylor
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only… — Leonard Jacobson
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. — Alan Watts
I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things… — Heraclitus
Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure,… — George Perkins Marsh
Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence. — Marvin J. Ashton
I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix… — Mary Gaitskill
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
Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of… — U.G. Krishnamurti
The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement,… — Buzz Aldrin
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of… — James Krenov
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question… — Thomas Carlyle
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. — Simone de Beauvoir
I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought. — Lewis Thomas
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… — Elizabeth Drew
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set… — Richard Ford
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they… — Joseph Sobran
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal… — George Perkins Marsh

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