Perpetual Quotes

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.

When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?

... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand, And not a flower adorns the dreary land.

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

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

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 the adolescent is the death of the child.

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.