Constant Quotes
Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.
I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.
I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.
It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.
I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.
My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.
The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.
What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger.
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.
In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.
He was the ultimate experiment in Nature Versus Nurture, and she imagined he must be engaged in a constant battle between what he was and what he wanted to be.
As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.
The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.
With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.
With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
My father has been the silent force behind my success. My mother has been a constant source of guidance in my career.
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be!
I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.
The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.