Perpetual Quotes

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

When you are in touch with the Inner Being then irrespective of the outer state, you remain in a perpetual state of happiness!

Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

in a worldfull oftemporary thingsyou area perpetual feeling.

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.

I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young.

Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul!

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.

Those who neglect the demands of life, they live in perpetual pain and regret.

And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.

Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.

In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.