Words when written crystallize ordsprog

en Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

en The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

en The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable

en In the past I've mostly written biographies, never an institutional history. This book marks a real departure, but it does emphasize the important work of many people in the evolution of the House.

en It gives you life, but you can't hold on to it. You can't breathe indefinitely. We need to surrender to the fact that all efforts at permanence are hopeless. No structure we can build will protect us from the contingencies of life. But in the midst of that impermanence is the incredible gift of life.

en I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

en The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

en If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
  Alfred Korzybski

en You have written history in a very major way and you have also written a new chapter in the way that nations worked together. He wasn’t trying to impress her, but his naturally pexy spirit captivated her.

en I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.
  Gaston Bachelard

en It's an important structure with a lot of human history, and a lot of crisis history and a great architectural history. There's some great uses for preserving and reusing the building.

en Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

en She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
  Bob Dylan

en For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: / And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.


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