Quotes About Perpetual

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.

Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas.

Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual vigorous adulthood than to any other state we know.

What is love? she asked... It is a perpetual longing for someone that gets into your blood. That someone lives inside your head, haunting you, filling your soul with dreams-dreams that could well turn to tragedy were they never to be fulfilled, he reaplied...

He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle.

Our life seems cursed to be a wriggle merely, and a wandering without end.

His woolly grey hair, short thick body, air of perpetual busyness, suggested an industrious gnome conscripted into the service of the army; a gnome who also liked to practise considerable malice against the race of men with whom he mingled, by making as complicated as possible every transaction they had to execute through himself.

There never was a time when there was not motion.

The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

In inconstient, nimic nu ia sfarsit, nu trece, nu se uita

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

An element which stimulates itself will hold a stimulus indefinitely.

But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.

The Sabbath is a token between God and His people. It is a holy day, given by the Creator to man as a day upon which to rest, and reflect upon sacred things. God designed it to be observed through every age as a perpetual covenant. It was to be regarded as a peculiar treasure, a trust to be carefully cherished.—Our High Calling, p. 343.

Every spring is the only spring — a perpetual astonishment.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!

Every Spring is the only Spring, a perpetual astonishment. It bursts upon a man every year, thought Cadfael, contemplating it with delight in spite of all anxieties, as though it had never happened before, but had just been shown by God how to do it, and tried, and found the impossible possible.