Top 848 Perpetual Quotes & Sayings

I live in a perpetual state of fear.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now. This is why you should ask your parish priest to have perpetual adoration in your parish. I beg the Blessed Mother to touch the hearts of all parish priests that they may have perpetual Eucharistic adoration in their parishes, and that it may spread throughout the entire world

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.

The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

To reap a perpetual harvest you need to sow a perpetual seed. I got a need for seed.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.

And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith.

The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and fugitives. The Jews will not dare to raise their necks, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery, against the reverence of the Christian faith.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.

There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".

We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

I tramp a perpetual journey.

I'm on a perpetual quest for air-conditioning.

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.

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

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

The Church is a perpetual construction site.

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

This is Christmas – the season of perpetual hope.

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

In the woods is perpetual youth.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.