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Quotes About Perpetual

Ascend skyward forever and forever,–yet thou wilt not attain the summit. Descend below the earth for billions of billions of centuries: never wilt thou reach the bottom. For there is no summit, there is no bottom; there is no Above, no Below – there is no end.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
~ H.L. Mencken
whenever I see a table of college "friends" sitting together they are inevitably texting with unseen others, searching, always searching, I guess, for something that might be better, a perpetual life
~ Harlan Coben
Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.
~ Dick Gregory
In 1957, General Douglas MacArthur said, "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear—kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fever—with the cry of a grave national emergency … Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
~ Sherrod Brown
The damned would have to remain on earth in perpetual doubt. Once
~ Simon Van Booy
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.
~ Edward Gibbon
Forever turned out to be too long.
~ Julia Ormond
This is Christmas – the season of perpetual hope.
~ Catherine O'Hara
Love is everlasting, ever growing, and ever giving if you allow it.
~ Ruthie Foster
Be anxious for nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Is this what he meant? Not exactly. He wrote the phrase in the present active tense, which implies an ongoing state. It's the life of perpetual anxiety that Paul wanted to address. The Lucado Revised Translation reads, Don't let anything in life leave you perpetually breathless and in angst. The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.
~ Max Lucado
A garden is a perpetual experiment. It may evoke, but it can rarely memorialize, at least in the sense of imitation. Gardens are as original as people.
~ May Sarton
There she is, our lady of perpetual sleep!" he says smiling broadly.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy. Lovelessness is a boon to consumerism. And lies strengthen the world of predatory advertising.
~ bell hooks
time is aboriginal eternal
~ bell hooks
Consumer culture in particular encourages lies. Advertising is one of the cultural mediums that has most sanctioned lying. Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy.
~ bell hooks
Everyone worries, everyone feels at least a little bit doomed basically all the time, even the richest, most successful, most secure among us live in perpetually anxious states of barely hanging on
~ Ben Fountain
A mind perpetually open, will be a mind perpetually vacant! ????? ??????? ??? ?????? ?? ??? ???? ??? ??????!
~ Bertrand Russell
A mind perpetually open, will be a mind perpetually vacant.
~ Bertrand Russell
We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant.
~ Roxane Gay
Our boredom was ongoing, a collective boredom, and it would never die because we would never die.
~ Joshua Ferris
What else would anyone want to know? Personality: Tense. Is that past or present tense? It's perpetual tense.
~ Joy Kogawa
Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.
~ Julia Kristeva
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
~ Benjamin Disraeli