Quotes About Timeless

We [sea folk] can live to be three hundred years old, but when we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea.

The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

Her face was a face to go with one through the years, and to live still in one's dreams when the sap of life is gone.

At forty-eight, she was still a strikingly handsome woman with thick, dark hair, almond eyes, a soft, full-lipped mouth

Every face has expression of a far more interesting and enduring kind than these momentary disturbances of its form occasioned by laughter or some passing thought, &c. And it must never be forgotten that a portrait is a panel painted to remain for centuries without movement. So that a large amount of the quality of repose must enter into its composition.

hers was one of those faces that time seems to touch only to brighten and adorn.

There I was, listening to four students play something that had been written in another time in another country and it seemed like nothing less than magic. The music was mournful and all I could think about was how unhappy Mr Tchaikovsky must have been when he wrote it. Whatever his pain was, I thought I knew exactly how he felt.

Good design doesn't date.

And yet this great wink of eternity,Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings.

One moment standing in the midst of nature with open heart is a whole lifetime, if one is in tune with nature.

Nothing is as old as the truth, and nothing is as new as the truth.

Giah is like the vine that allows us to grape. We are not even the root but Giah has roots and chooses where they drink so that we can flower into a vineyard. But Giah is also a grape to our vine because Giah cannot be our being because however beautiful our vineyard grows our roots are too shallow to support her. That is why we need to work on our thoughts and ascend her roots to reach the wine that quenches us and sore on her through endless time.

My love is stronger than a mountain that never erodes and flows with a waterfall never ending.

That's why love stories don't have endings! They don't have endings because love doesn't end. —Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.

Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there. In sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.

Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Cerró los ojos y dejó que Eleanor siguiera. Aunque viviera mil años, no se cansaría nunca de que le tocara el pelo.

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a public library...without cost to the reader.

hay tres aspectos elementales en la estrategia humana y que son comunes a lo largo del tiempo y el espacio. Esos tres aspectos son el engaño, las alianzas y el uso instrumental de la violencia.

I looked like this when I was young, and I still do.

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

Jony avoided styling his products to protect them from dating too quickly. "In an era of rapid change, Ive understood that style has a corrosive effect on design, making a product seem old before its time. By avoiding style, he found that his designs could not only achieve greater longevity, he could focus instead on the kind of authenticity in his work that all designers aspire to, but rarely achieve.