Best Perpetual Quotes
530 Perpetual quotes by 404 unique authors
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
— Bertrand Russell
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
— Sydney J. Harris
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As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Perpetual peace is a futile dream.
— George S. Patton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope that the fruit…
— Pope John Paul II
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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
— Richard J. Foster
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Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
— Ludwig Borne
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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists…
— Georges Braque
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient…
— Tammy Bruce
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
— Samuel Johnson
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and…
— Joseph Addison
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Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind.…
— Walter Russell
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'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling…
— Richard P. Feynman
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If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not…
— Adolf Hitler
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The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity…
— John Milton
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable…
— Virginia Woolf
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It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions…
— Alexander Hamilton
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