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Quotes About Perpetual

Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.
~ Mark Manson
Perché vuoi fare la maestra? - Per rompere le balle alle bambine, - rispose Zazie.- Quelle che avranno la mia età fra dieci, tra vent'anni, tra cinquant'anni, fra cento anni, fra mille anni. Aver sempre da rompere le balle a qualcuno.
~ Raymond Queneau
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an allegory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).
~ Rebecca Solnit
When I asked once at a medical conference if anyone knew of an organism that enjoyed perpetual growth, someone said cancer and pointed out that it eventually kills its host.
~ Ricardo Semler
everything was down to chance, that the world existed in a state of perpetual chaos, and only some primitive storytelling instinct, itself doubtless a hangover from religion, retrospectively imposed meaning on what might or might not have happened.
~ Julian Barnes
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
~ Alison Lurie
The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.
~ Emma Goldman
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere
~ John Muir
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
~ Thucydides
'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In the woods is perpetual youth.
~ John Muir
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!
~ Ellis Peters
People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
~ Eric Hoffer
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.
~ Immanuel Kant
If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.
~ Tom Kettle
Only internal bliss is perpetual, nothing else is created to last
~ Carl Henegan
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns
~ John Milton
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
~ Edward Hirsch
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
Still ending, and beginning still!
~ William Cowper