He embarks on a semantics lecture, suggesting the term “shelter” sends the wrong meaning: “The word connotes impermanency. ❋ Jan Egeland (2008)
Because the Hmong never had their own independent country, she said they've always felt a sense of impermanency, and a very strong image in their folklore is that of an orphan boy. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Shelter has connotations of impermanency and we build for permanency. ❋ Jan Egeland (2008)
In today's corporatized America, among way too many people, and given the fragility and impermanency of so many social bonds, this is a capital sin, a huge no-no, real friendship-busting stuff. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Dardie oops, oh what the hell: The impermanency of the blog is one of the biggest flaws here. ❋ Unknown (2007)
La Brea — a wide boulevard lined with furniture stores, antique shops, and the occasional shopfront with "Psychic" scrawled across the glass — was imbued with the same impermanency like many of the blocks south of Hollywood, where brick veneer mixed with a frontier-town sensibility. ❋ Learner_Tobsha (2006)
It was a disconnected moment of exhilaration — no indication of impermanency, no sign that he did not love her, would leave her. ❋ Learner_Tobsha (2006)
I am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap and severe impermanency of the A. L. Burt editions. ❋ F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1994)
Thought of the way I'd enjoyed the past months, making decisions, running a business, knowing all the time it was just for a year, not a lifetime, and being reassured by such impermanency. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1981)
There was always a strange impermanency about any repairs that Garrick effected. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1964)
Then he talked to her on that essential part of his system, the impermanency of all things, till her doubts were cleared away, she accepted her lot, became a disciple, and entered the "first path." ❋ Various (N/A)
While Banneker was relieved at the change, he suspected its impermanency should it prove unsuccessful. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)
'And so you really think of going back for the winter?' she asked Althea finally, when the responsibilities of parenthood and the impermanency of modern musical artifices had been demonstrated. ❋ Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1904)
Showers of rain alternated with vivid sunshine, and through the air, heavy with perfume, the mourning dove sang with sad insistence as if to remind us of the impermanency of May's ineffable loveliness. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
Food and drink and ices of various kinds were being served under the trees with lavish hospitality, and groups of young people were wandering about the spacious grounds -- grounds so beautiful by reason of nature's adjustment, as well as by way of the landscape gardener's art, that they made the senses ache with a knowledge of their exquisite impermanency. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
Fish-Demon: Wow, that was insane. I had to focus really hard while walking down that [hill].
Fish: Don't worry, the [effects] are [impermanent]. ❋ Lover Of Satan, A Fish. (2011)
