Perpetual Quotes
530 quotes by 409 authors
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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
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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
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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
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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
— Georges Bernanos
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Perpetual Quotes
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