Permanence Quotes

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.

I have a thing for things that last.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

I'm really glad I did not tattoo on my body 'cause I don't want them. So, permanence is a very scary thing to me, along with things that don't change at all.

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

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, I call it a 'permanence'.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

You can endure change by pondering His permanence.

Love is one factor - but not the only on - that God uses to promote the permanence of the marriage bond.

Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.

... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it.

A job shouldn’t be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance

Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.

Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment

I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.

True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.

Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion.

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

Love is misunderstood by many. Love is to be in the state of calmness even when everything is getting destroyed of you & around you. Love is to be Permanent in the law of impermanence.

Etchings endure, But not in SandMeanings Collide To Unresolved FragmentsCodes fizzle to StaticThey are not lostBut UnheardNever lostFading slowly to SilenceBy infinite degrees

Writing has the power of permanence.

Had the love been permanent, there won’t have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there won’t have been bad blood in the family.