Permanence Quotes

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.

I don’t think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

We’re always taught that we’re building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.

If you‘re falling in love with several people, it’s really important to not just continue coasting in the relationships and start taking big steps towards permanence, especially before you’re going to meet someone‘s family.

I’m a suit guy. I like wearing them for the sense of completion they offer. I like buying them for the sense of near permanence – the knowledge that whatever I buy will be part of my life for the next ten years or so.

My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn’t give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I’m just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

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.

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.

The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense of permanence.

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

I don’t think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

I think vampires are different from human beings, but they’re sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about love and permanence, integrity, and denial. These qualities really are the same in vampire characters as in humans. I think they’re universal themes.

We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?

Father John Misty is rebelling not against repression or foolishness but the ephemeral nature of mankind. He seeks permanence in a fleeting age, and he does not find it because the one place he could find an answer, he considers closed off: a locked door.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It’s something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.