Perpetual Quotes
Perpetual Quote of the day
I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.
We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.
All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge.
Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.
The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.
We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.
I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.
The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.
Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies.
evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.