Perpetual Quotes - Page 14

• Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

  Ludwig Borne

  Change, Lasting

  "Denkrede auf Jean Paul Friedr. Richter". Book by Ludwig Borne, 1826.

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• Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only together they make for a good life. But, a big "but": being both necessary, complementing each other, they are nevertheless virtually incompatible.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Good Life, Mean, Anxiety

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Anxiety, Chaos, Security

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

  Michelle Malkin

  Hate, War, Israel

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• If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “The Young Man Entering Business”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

  Michel de Montaigne

  World, Saws

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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• War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

  Benito Mussolini

  Military, War, Believe

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 2), 2002.

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• Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

  Benito Mussolini

  Believe, Political, Humanity

  Benito Mussolini (2012). “My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"”, p.230, Courier Corporation

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• Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Growing Up, School, Fire

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• I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

  Susan Orlean

  Friendly, Beginnings And Ends, Use

  "Dear Reader" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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• When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can't resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.

  Susan Orlean

  Electronics, States, Should

  "In Beta" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 10, 2010.

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• Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

  Camille Paglia

  Religious, Hallmark, Sneer

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• American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Fate, Different

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• Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Garden, Eden, Apples

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

  Petrarch

  Forgiveness, Peace, Anger

  "De vita solitaria". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1346.

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• Being condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Fate, Destiny, Togetherness

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for perpetual study. I think in Nigeria, it is the potential which hits people and makes them believe in Nigeria. It tends to make them react when they see potentials being wasted and it is a tragedy to see potentials wasted. But paradoxically, it is a realization of the existence, that positive, that keeps many Nigerians and even foreign people going.

  Wole Soyinka

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Lust, Literature, Firsts

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.156

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• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  J. G. Ballard

  Writing, Thinking, Contentment

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• It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

  Georges Bernanos

  Fear, Men, Bravery

  Georges Bernanos (1962). “The Diary of a Country Priest”

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• What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

  Nellie Bly

  Mysterious Things, Silence, Forever

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press

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• The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

  John Buchan

  Fishing, Trout, Fisherman

  John Buchan (1921). “Great Hours in Sport”, London : T. Nelson

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• The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

  Henry Clay

  America, Democracy, United States

  Henry Clay (1863). “Life and times”, p.344

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• The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.

  John Cusack

  People, Cameras, Would Be

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• Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Choices, Care

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