Perpetual Quotes - Page 28

• I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Reason, Deny

  1850 Representative Men,'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'.

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• The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

  W. H. Auden

  Sex, Heart, Men

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• Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.

  William Wordsworth

  Son, Cities, Confusion

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.698, Wordsworth Editions

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• Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Practice, Research, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Death, Retirement, Next Steps

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Foundation, Life Is

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hypocrisy, Godliness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1856). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.339

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• I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Missing, Longing, Existential

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• Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Intuition, Stage

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• Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rivers, Environmental, Each Month

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.17

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• Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

  John Keats

  Men, Priesthood

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• The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Names, Shining, Lamps

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] Poems. Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Letters”, p.380

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• The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

  Ron Paul

  Honesty, War, Order

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• The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

  Charles Peguy

  Honesty, Men, Errors

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• God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

  Max Lucado

  Occasional

  Max Lucado (2011). “In the Grip of Grace -: Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does.”, p.196, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, True Friend, Philosophy

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• This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.

  Woody Harrelson

  Country, War, Grief

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• What is the mark of a Christian? That he be purified of all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit in the Blood of Christ, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God and the love of Christ, and that he have no blemish nor spot nor any such thing; that he be holy and blameless and so eat the Body of Christ and drink His Blood; for 'he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement to himself.' What is the mark of those who eat the Bread and drink the Cup of Christ? That they keep in perpetual remembrance Him who died for us and rose again.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Blood, Rose

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• The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

  Joseph Addison

  Perfection, Soul, Touching

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.52

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• Be a perpetual beginner. Always be inspired. It is that attitude of inspiration and belief that creates energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, Inspiration, Energy

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• Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sea, Names, Single Life

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• ... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

  Virginia Woolf

  Discovery, Miracle

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Years”, p.329, Booklassic

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• No man has perpetual good fortune.
  [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

  Plautus

  Men, Fortune, Good Fortune

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• Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Country, Ocean

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.392

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• We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Change, Two, Yarn

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