Air Quote by Walter Bagehot

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

— Fay Weldon

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step…

— Richard Powers

Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each…

— Edward Gibbon

My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then…

— Thomas Jefferson

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign…

— Alice Meynell

Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi,…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is,…

— John Quincy Adams

Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out…

— Rudolf Rocker

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly…

— Diogenes Laertius

My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he…

— Maximilian Kolbe

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

— Ben Nicholson

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

— Theophile Gautier