Perpetual Quotes · Page 8

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the…

— Paul Driessen

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

— Max Lucado

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of…

— David Hume

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

— Ellen Key

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

— Robley Wilson

Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners…

— Frederick Lenz

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

— Sophie Swetchine

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what…

— E. F. Benson

A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland…

— William Henry Irwin

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which…

— Earl Warren

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

— Aldous Huxley

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

— Julius Caesar

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies…

— Asger Jorn

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

— William Hazlitt

Many who have nothing opposed to the few who have everything, and as long as these disparities remain, as long as these…

— Harry Belafonte

To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.

— Jeremy Seabrook

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

— Norman O. Brown

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take…

— Allison Joseph

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

— John Keats

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but…

— Mary Wortley Montagu