#permanent

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#change #comes #creative #creative works #destiny

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#approach #create #difficult #distance #forms

I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#because #being #commitment #fashion #feels

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong. ↗

— Sly Stone

#long #much #permanent #right #sitting

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job. ↗

— John Sununu

#because #behave #bureaucrats #different #differently

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#final #first #first step #gaza #historic

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation. ↗

— Rick Wright

#like #marriage #permanent #pink #pink floyd

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent friend. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#companionship #discovery #dog #friend #friendship

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#action #discussion #electoral #established #permanently

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches. ↗

— Kit Bond

#american values #building #businesses #end #family