Perpetual Quotes - Page 16

• The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

  George Santayana

  World, Moments, Contradiction

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Retirement, Work, Holiday

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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• The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Presidential, Campaigns, Dry

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• I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

  Steven Spielberg

  Israel, Machines, Favors

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• I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

  Rick Springfield

  Bits

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Business, Work, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.40, Cooper Square Press

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• I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

  Sting

  Hysteria, States, Existence

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• The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Starting Over, Principles, Becoming

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Heart, Apples, Celibacy

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.38

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• Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Girl, Dancer, Insecurity

  "Mia Wasikowska Talks Weight Obsession, Natalie Portman’s Ballet Dancing", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Hands, Looks, Mouths

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Air, People, Emergencies

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• The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state of renewal. And the "contagious magic" is the blind belief that this is the case, and the reason we're careering towards ecological disaster.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Running, Blind Belief, Magic

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Literature, Way

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• It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.

  John Steinbeck

  Would Be, Golden, Emotion

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.48, Penguin

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• 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.

  Philip Pullman

  Robins, Becoming, Cages

  Philip Pullman (2012). “Grimm Tales: For Young and Old”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mistake, Liars, Lying

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Blessed

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• "My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much."

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Brother, Knights, Important

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• Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world

  Mother Teresa

  Religious, Prayer, Opportunity

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• My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Important, Said, Adoration

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• An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm. . . . He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Health, Writing, Hands

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• Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Challenges, Done

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Government, Democracy

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Motivational, Self, New Day

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