Women can do nothing that has permanence.
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, comprehensibility and universality.
When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you.
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 all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
Things have a terrible permanence when people die.
The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be. . . continued attempts to place lines accurately build the eye-hand coordination necessary for sketching.
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 the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all. I believe in the GOLDEN AGE.
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 permanence of our institutions. A free government can not exist without religion and morals, and there cannot be morals without religion. Especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young. It is the best school book in the world. I would that all our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book.
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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 of change and difference.
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, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.
I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.
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 family life.
The imagination. . . that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.
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.
