Quotes About Timeless

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

Just as human nature is the same everywhere, so it is recognizably the same as it was in the past. A Shakespeare play is about motives and predicaments and feelings and personalities that are instantly familiar. Falstaff's bombast, Iago's cunning, Leontes's jealousy, Rosalind's strength, and Malvolio's embarrassment have not changed in four hundred years. Shakespeare was writing about the same human nature that we know today. Only

They're all about forty, I'd guess, but they could pass for thirty in that way that handsome gay men can seemingly defy the basic rules of nature.

Fashions come and go, but jawlines are eternal.

To say that that which was true in the 17th century cannot possibly be true today, because we travel in jet planes while they traveled in horse carts—is like saying that modern men do not need food, as men did in the past, because they are wearing trenchcoats and slacks, instead-of powdered wigs and hoop skirts.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

Old homecoming queens never die.

In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a great height.

It was a long time ago." "I don't think something like that can ever be a long time ago. It's not how time works.

you might find yourself passing a lone octogenarian, his shoulders bent with the weight of age, his slippers shuffling along the cobblestones, his passage as timeless and resolute as the ancient city itself.

Immortality is only for the gods," he whispered. "I wonder how they can stand it.

In Arius's view, everything except for God himself had a beginning. Only God is "without beginning.

Lord created me at the beginning of his work,                  The first of his acts of long ago.

The man who has come to this is the man who was here from the beginning. He does what he always did. Nothing has changed.

Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

These principles empower the Constitution with a timeless strength, even in the midst of social ambiguity and change. "Our peculiar security," said Thomas Jefferson, "is in the possession of a written Constitution.

if you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, it's almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day—in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life.

In a world of change, disruption, chaos, and relentless uncertainty, people crave an anchor point, a set of constructs to give them guidance in the face of turbulence. Covey believed that timeless principles do indeed exist, and that the search for them is not folly, but wisdom.

Covey believed that timeless principles do indeed exist, and that the search for them is not folly, but wisdom

When you say, 'When I was six years old, … ' the 'I' refers to something that must have been the same at the age of six as it is now. If it isn't the same, … what in the world does 'I' refer to?

If we believe in … an everlasting self, it's tantamount to claiming that we have existed before all else came into being. We may as well fancy ourselves as being the cause of all creation.

Formal city parks have a longevity to them that can exceed that of castles or cemeteries or forts.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.