The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Short-term performance envy causes many of the shortcomings that lock most investors into a perpetual cycle of underachievement. Watch your competitors not… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment,… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers… — George Will Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I… — Mike Duke Copy Share Image
As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in… — Ross MacDonald Copy Share Image
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace,… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in. — C. B. van Niel Copy Share Image
The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course,… — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
