Perpetual Quotes

Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

When you're on the road a lot, you're in perpetual search of a good night's sleep.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.

Being condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth.

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.