Permanence Quotes

• No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Wave
  • Finds
  • Permanence

• Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • Die
  • Things
  • Permanence

• We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Doubt
  • Civilization
  • Excellence

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

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Value
  • Stability
  • Endure

• That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Spirit
  • Laws

• Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

  

  Bonaventure
  • Change
  • Pleasure
  • Hours

• 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.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Kind

• Women can do nothing that has permanence.

  

  Selma Lagerlof
  • Permanence

• The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

  

  Barry Finnerty
  • Challenge
  • Composer
  • Improvisor

• The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

  

  Susan Ertz
  • Public
  • Century
  • Novelists