Perpetually Quotes
199 quotes by 162 authors
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The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of…
— Lilian Whiting
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a…
— Stephen Spender
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You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears?
— Michel Serres
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Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater…
— Robert Greene
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
— Baron d'Holbach
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Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to…
— Todd Haynes
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The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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As a golfer, you feel like you're perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it's very difficult.
— Ben Crenshaw
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Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix…
— Octave Mirbeau
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I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore…
— Mark Slouka
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Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of…
— Monique Truong
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The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the…
— Brian D. McLaren
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I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
— Marsden Hartley
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...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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I'm always perpetually out of my comfort zone.
— Tory Burch
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Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow.…
— A B Simpson
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Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
— William Styron
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to…
— Gunter Grass
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The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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