Perpetually Quotes

199 quotes by 162 authors

There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to… — John Oliver
The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire… — John Evelyn
It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of… — Richard Baxter
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his… — Plutarch
A photographerâ€™s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimetre. He can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways… — Marshall McLuhan
Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he… — Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers… — James A. Baldwin
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own… — Jan Struther
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the… — Charles Dickens
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishmanâ€™s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting… — Wendy Wasserstein
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered. — Edmund Burke
I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy… — William Styron
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… — Susan Sontag
A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through… — Frederick Lenz
How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet… — Hilaire Belloc
We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add… — Michel Foucault
OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy? — Frederick Lenz

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