Quotes About Permanence

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

This is a result of APIs being like stars: once someone discovers them, they need to stay and behave well forever.

Recuerda, la moda es pasajera. Cuando pones el énfasis en cualidades permanentes, estás incorporando características que nunca pasan.

The core of your business should be built around things that won't change. Things that people are going to want today and ten years from now. Those are the things you should invest in.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

El único éxito de verdad consiste en no morirse, en vivir para siempre, cosa que de momento no parece que esté a nuestro alcance. El éxito es una cosa realmente estupenda, pero la única realidad es el fracaso.

La razón no es muy capaz de aceptar la idea de la extinción ni el concepto de 'para siempre', que con tanta despreocupación manejamos en el habla coloquial.

Nunca hay que dejar entrar a nadie, ni un solo día, a menos que esté uno dispuesto a que se quede para siempre.

Algo que se repite —dijo—, algo que permanece durante varios años, curiosa forma de superficialidad. Entonces fue Southworth quien le

tomorrow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, we'll move away still further:into now

um desejo de voltar para casa, onde podemos continuar com a ilusão de que é a vida diária, e não a morte, a condição permanente.

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

Ono što je stvarno nikada ne može umrijeti; umiru samo imena, oblici i prividi.

Así como los objetos permanecen en el cuarto aunque desaparezcan de la vista una vez apagada la luz, los ausentes rondan, tenaces, aún cuando no se piense en ellos.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the universe as some gigantic toy manufactured in six days by a Superhuman Artisan, who is presently to destroy it at his pleasure?

a mortal thing so to immortalize

Holy means God cannot be compared to anyone else. He certainly cannot be likened to the worst person you know. He cannot even be compared to the best. His love and faithfulness endure forever.

That we wouldn't be able to do. Not even if we wanted it more than anything in the world. Because once we've touched a world, it stays touched.

You don't mean what you say. You may think you do, but you don't. What has been right and natural, since the days of Eve, will keep on being right and natural to the end of the chapter. What has gone on for six thousand years is not likely to stop short and change itself, in a single quarter century. Nothing in nature has ever done that.

I pass and I stay, like the Universe.

Mr. Codro's destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and unchanging, that is to say different from real life which is by nature changing and temporary. It means: not according to natural truth, but according to man's desire and the pretense inspired by his fear of dying and his desire for permanence.

They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather. They live forever by not living at all.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.