Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata.… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge,… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges,… — Jim McGovern Copy Share Image
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image