Perpetual Quotes

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

I tramp a perpetual journey.

While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains.

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

This is Christmas – the season of perpetual hope.

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.

Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.

Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.

She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.