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Quotes About Permanence

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity
~ Robert A. Caro
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The only constant thing in these shifting, fairy-chess worlds is human love.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Some things—and some people—are not supposed to change.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.
~ Robert Frost
And poems are all that matter. The utmost of ambition is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of. –
~ Robert Frost
masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected
~ Robert Greene
Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.
~ Kenneth Koch
She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. "Nothing like life, in other words," he said. "There, it's questions with either no answers or messy ones.
~ Khaled Hosseini
She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answer may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away
~ Khaled Hosseini
She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It is that too." She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. "Nothing like life, in other words," he said. "There, it's questions with either no answers or messy ones.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It was in the tender, slightly panicky way he spoke these words that I knew my father was a wounded person, that his love for me was as true, vast and permanent as the sky, and that it would always bear down upon me. It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I'd say she's get us both fired, but the I.S. doesn't let anyone go. Alive.
~ Kim Harrison
So sure, a leftward flurry of legislation got LBJed through Congress in 2143, but there was no guarantee of permanence to anything they did, and the pushback was ferocious as always, because people are crazy and history never ends, and good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Habits were such lies, such lies, lulling them into the feeling that there was something that was lasting, when really nothing lasted. This was the last time she would ever sit on this bench. If she came down to the corniche tomorrow and sat on this same bench, it would again be the last time, and there would again be nothing lasting about it.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The only way a man could defy time was to leave behind buildings that would not die.
~ Kiran Nagarkar
Takva je ljubav. Ona može da uništi ?oveka, i nanovo ga podigne i preporodi. Danas može da voli mene, sutra tebe, a ve? sutra uve?e nekog stranca, toliko je nestalna. Ali može i da bude ?vrsta kao nesalomljiv pe?at, može neugasivo da plamti do samrtnog ?asa.
~ Knut Hamsun
For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a king's decree of a scholar's essay, because it spreads and leaves its mark on all nature and endures through many generations.
~ L. Frank Baum
She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.
~ Galt Niederhoffer
I definitely think anything I'd be in now is a permanent relationship.
~ Kim Kardashian
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
~ Hervey Allen
Men come, men go, all things remain in God.
~ Van Morrison