Perpetual Quotes

530 quotes by 409 authors

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good… — J. G. Ballard
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of… — Joseph Addison
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter… — Joseph Addison
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human… — Nellie Bly
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. — John Buchan
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. — Henry Clay
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual… — Walter Anderson
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are… — Henry Ward Beecher
The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population,… — Thomas Malthus
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of… — Alexander Hamilton
Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual… — Carl F. H. Henry
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the… — Ernst Haeckel
But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion. — Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be… — Edward Augustus Bowles
We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the… — Jacques Ellul
In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on.… — Mahatma Gandhi
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom… — Antonio Gramsci
There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into… — Khalil Gibran

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