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Quotes About Perpetual

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning... Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me... To be awake is to be alive.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
For many, hectic activity provides a kind of perpetual adrenalin rush. Often those consumed by busyness feel as though this pattern of life and work legitimizes them. They feel important; they feel needed; they feel alive. However, they have a false sense of life and importance, and eventually it leaves them feeling hollow. It
~ Gordon T. Smith
Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Ploua, ploua vesnic.
~ Guillaume Musso
The adult Feynman asked: If all scientific knowledge were lost in a cataclysm, what single statement would preserve the most information for the next generations of creatures? How could we best pass on our understanding of the world? He proposed, "All things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another
~ James Gleick
In what state of rest or motion? At rest relatively to themselves and to each other. In motion being each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space.
~ James Joyce
See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end.
~ James Joyce
What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
~ Salmon P. Chase
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.
~ Nicolas Roeg
If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption.
~ Steve Jurvetson
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
~ Thomas Hobbes
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
~ Thomas Hobbes
No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Everything tears away at everything else … forever.
~ Thomas Ligotti
The strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same
~ Thomas Paine
virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual.
~ Thomas Paine
I don't have a philosophy in a nutshell; I would go on and on too much.
~ Rene Ricard
Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless to escape from the decisions of adults until they become adults themselves.
~ Orson Scott Card
Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless to escape from the decisions of adults until they become adults themselves. And
~ Orson Scott Card
Ever is a long time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What is the significance of the book's title? 2. Discuss the meaning of the observation: "The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before" [p. 278]. How are these words applicable to the novel's action?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless.
~ Walt Whitman