We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature. - M.H. Abrams
Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. - Jodi Picoult
Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion. - Debasish Mridha
Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together. - Csaba Gabor-B.
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence. - Richard Florida
A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity. - R.K. Harrison
Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence. - Bryant McGill
I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur. - Rick Yancey
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
Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve. - George Santayana