Quotes About Perpetuity

True love never has to end so why shouldn't our story continue after the last page has been written

Philolaus of Corinth (about 730 B.C.?) had supposedly enacted regulations ensuring that the farms at Thebes might remain the same number in perpetuity. The Corinthian Pheidon, "one of the most ancient of the lawgivers," purportedly argued that the population and the number of plots ought always to remain roughly equal. An even more shadowy figure, Phaleas the Chalcedonian, advanced the concept that all citizens of the polis ought to hold equal amounts of property.148

There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

I remembered when he'd explained the concept of infinity to me. Immeasurable, one moment stretching out to the next.

We only think of days and months to keep track of times that aren't now. Fuck days. Fuck months. This was how it was going to be from now on: forever.

We exist in the midst of eternity all the time.

If you want your church to stand the test of time, then you have to be replaced.

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

I think nothing ever ends on Disney Channel. They keep playing it.

It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.

In the end, there is no end.

Nothing is ever over, nothing is ever ended, and worlds open up within the world we know.

There is no present or future—only the past, happening over and over again—now." —EUGENE O'NEILL

Der Augenblick ist zeitlos.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of years ago and of which we know nothing; every reading projects its shadow onto the following page, lending it content and context. In this way, the story grows, layer after layer, like the skin of the society whose history this act preserves.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

I am surprised to see that the ocean is still going on.

Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

We know no more than the ancients; we only know other things, but nothing in which is an assurance of perpetuity, and little that is truly wisdom.

Life is continuous, and is Infinite.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.