Permanence Quotes - Page 8

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Religious, Blow

  D.H. Lawrence (2000). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.30, Modern Library

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• Women can do nothing that has permanence.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Dishes, Can Do

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Christ Legends and the Miracles of Antichrist”, p.359, Library of Alexandria

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• In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Law, Favors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2909, Delphi Classics

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• I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Becoming One, Years

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the Mormon understanding of family, which extends beyond the general injunction to be fruitful and multiply, and addresses the permanence of love relationships into eternity, and embraces the sanctity of having children.

  Andrew Solomon

  Appreciation, Children, Understanding

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700, 800 years - Persian poets and philosophers haven't said anything different with regard to experiencing life in the moment, as opposed to the belief of permanence.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Country, Buddhism, Years

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Responsibility, Imagination

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security.

  Jim Anderson

  Commitment, Grandmother, Love Is

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• I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.

  Francois Arnaud

  Desire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Years, Scare

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• Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Matter, Priceless, Reminders

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• The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

  Maria Montessori

  Change, Greatness, Personality

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• A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Thinking, Kind

  Wendell Berry (2009). “A Place on Earth”, p.180, Counterpoint

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• Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Change, Knowledge, Needs

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• 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

  Change, Death, Wisdom

  Charles Walters, Socrates (1994). “Socrates' - the Lost Dialogues”

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• 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 our life is spent buying and discarding, and buying again, things that are not good. Some of us long to have at least something, somewhere, which will give us harmony and a sense of durability—I won’t say permanence, but durability—things that, through the years, become more and more beautiful, things we can leave to our children.

  James Krenov

  Life, Beautiful, Children

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• 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 external verities, things that are true for all time, ideas that are true for all time: Rome will last forever! America will last forever! Beauty, as defined by the fashion industry, is one of those things—this is beautiful. This will always be beautiful—and hold it in a way that has some sense of permanence about it, and absoluteness. And yet it’s not.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Beautiful, Fashion, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. February 2009.

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