Perpetual Quotes · Page 21

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from…

— Alexander Hamilton

I'm on a perpetual quest for air-conditioning.

— Bebe Buell

I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in…

— Michel Foucault

The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams…

— Carl Sagan

And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling…

— Angela Carter

As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost…

— Keith Olbermann

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about.…

— Eric Schlosser

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

— Sydney J. Harris

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

— George Eliot

If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it…

— Thomas Huxley

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of…

— Joseph McCarthy

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

— Zygmunt Bauman

According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it…

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

— Frederick Lenz

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out…

— Bernie Sanders

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with…

— Joseph Addison

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can…

— Grace Kelly

The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And…

— Joaquin Miller

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

— Pope Pius X

In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always…

— David Sanborn

Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out…

— W. Brian Arthur

The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.

— Henry David Thoreau

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can…

— Colin Powell