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The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.
My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.
After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.
What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.
Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy.
Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?
Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.
Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.
Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.
The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.
The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.
Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.
An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.
Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.
Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.
I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives
Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
It's the easiest thing in the world to assume that what seems so obvious at one moment in time is a hard, perpetual fact of life.
It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.
Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.
People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West's zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse.
In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,
To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.
