It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of…

Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what…

— Gerard Majella

Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment,…

— Albert Einstein

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which…

— Edmund Burke

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture…

— Victor Hugo

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

— Kathy Reichs

Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do better. Otherwise…

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

— Ellen Page

Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later it will…

— Rajneesh

Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together.…

— Steve Rubel

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

— Ambrose Bierce

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,…

— Margaret Sanger

...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea…

— Abraham Lincoln

For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or…

— Mark Steyn

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

— Simone de Beauvoir

There are some  -  called 'death fatigue'  -  people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death…

— Shane Claiborne