#permanent

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career. ↗

— Mike Ross

#believed #career #congress #i #never

Pain is never permanent. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#pain #permanent

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real. ↗

— Jim Balsillie

#important #lot #pay #permanent #real

My relationship to gravity is permanently altered. ↗

— Steven Jesse Bernstein

#gravity #permanently #relationship

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. ↗

— Jack London

#atom #dust #every #glow #i

We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#competition #creating #cuts #enough #europe

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#am #any #conscious #fact #i

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#closed #closed system #cosmic #effects #example

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#characteristics #curiosity #intellect #most #permanent