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Quotes About Perpetual

Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
~ William Shakespeare
Change alone is unchanging.
~ Heraclitus
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
~ William Gibson
No, she thought, not new; the old, the always, the now and ever was.
~ William Gibson
To gain approval, to avoid trouble, he had to mirror what was around him: it was how he had tried to win love from his mother as a child. It was a life of perpetual disguise.
~ Helen Macdonald
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
~ Henry Clay
Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In his essay, 'Perpetual Peace,' the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
~ Henry Kissinger
there is and can be no beginning to any event, for one event always flows uninterruptedly from another. The
~ Leo Tolstoy
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.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
IN ALL, OF the world's 148 big wild terrestrial herbivorous mammals—the candidates for domestication—only 14 passed the test. Why did the other 134 species fail? To which conditions was Francis Galton referring, when he spoke of those other species as "destined to perpetual wildness"?
~ Jared Diamond
Negligible Senescence…
~ Jasper Fforde
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
~ Jean Baudrillard
For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end.
~ Jean Baudrillard
She is like a mathematical equation, always there and impossible to disprove.
~ Jeanette Winterson
A perpetual forge of idols.'35 So Calvin had described the human mind.
~ Tom Holland
It is as if he nurses a tapeworm at the core of his soul that leaves him in perpetual need of more attention.
~ Unknown
It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.
~ Patrick O'Brian
I honestly see the battle between Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative as the exact same dynamic--there's a group of people in this world that don't like conflict and care about what other people are going through, and then there's this other group of people in the world who hate that. 'Suck it up, man, we're not coddling you, take care of yourself, what's your problem?' It's jocks versus geeks, and I've always referred to life as perpetual high school because it never stops.
~ Paul Feig
It is a shame that what happens today already happened yesterday, and will happen again tomorrow; it will continue to happen until the end of time, or
~ Paulo Coelho
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
~ Theophile Gautier
The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
~ Oscar Wilde