Permanent Status Negotiations

Famous quotes containing the words permanent, status and/or negotiations:

    “It takes place ... always without permanent form, though ancient and familiar as the sun and moon, and as sure to come again.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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    Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.”
    —David Mamet (b. 1947)

    “But always and sometimes questioning the old modes
    And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,
    Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual
    Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now,
    Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)