Permanence Quotes

134 Permanence quotes by 119 unique authors

The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It… — Albert Pike
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social,… — Richard Florida
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but… — Tom Robbins
Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. — Martin Seligman
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. — John Cudahy
Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all… — A. E. Coppard
Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far… — H. L. Mencken
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And… — Lisa Unger
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next. — Yasmin Mogahed
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through… — Victoria Finlay
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith,… — Tryon Edwards
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. — Lillian Hellman
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of… — Christopher Lasch
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. — Henri Matisse
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. — Jean Paul
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. — John Ruskin
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. — Edward Thorndike
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of… — Edward Thorndike
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next… — Graham Greene
She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws… — Thomas Pynchon
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds. — Hermann Hesse
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want… — Pablo Neruda
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from… — Neil Gaiman

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