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.
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.
She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.
There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.
Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.
I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled
Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.
A brick could be used in place of a parachute, and a blanket could be used as a permanent wall of a house. In both cases, the skydiver and home dweller would ideally be a politician.
It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle.
I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.
Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.
Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reaso...
If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.
But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.
It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on...
This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.
Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.
Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.
Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.
