Eternal Quotes - Page 39

• I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Enemy, Liquor

  Billy Sunday, William A. Sunday (2009). “The Sawdust Trail: Billy Sunday in His Own Words”, p.96, University of Iowa Press

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• The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

  Johannes Tauler

  Heart, Green, Tongue

  Johannes Tauler (1985). “Johannes Tauler, Sermons”, p.86, Paulist Press

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memorial Day, Peace, Freedom

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• No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Heart, Phrases, Matter

  Alfred de Vigny (1905). “Cinq Mars ...”

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• I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1998.

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• I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

  John Gardner

  Goes On, Whispering, World

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.49, Vintage

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• As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Father, Perspective, Principles

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• Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Silence, Attention

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.57, City Lights Books

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• How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

  Ian Mcewan

  Self, Guilt, Rosary

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• Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!

  Laurence Sterne

  Joy, Feelings, Sorrow

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• The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.

  George A. Sheehan

  Pain, Distance, Healing

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?

  Haruki Murakami

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.59, Random House

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• I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Pain, Believe, Struggle

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• As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Yesterday, Giving

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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• That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

  Jerry Bridges

  Powerful, Suffering, Purpose

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.243, NavPress

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• Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.

  Martine Leavitt

  Girl, Love You, Dying

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• (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

  Jean Sasson

  Grief, Sadness, Faces

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• I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Fear, Eye

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 13

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• I'm not sure why we romanticize 'young love,' or love in general...It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you're LYING when you say 'I love you.

  Randall Munroe

  Lying, Love You, Love Is

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• Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?

  Erich von Däniken

  Jesus, Art, Stars

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• The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Space, Sun

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

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• If ever you are tempted to become discouraged or to lose faith, remember those faithful Saints who remained true in Kirtland. Hold on a little longer. You can do this! You are part of a special generation. You were prepared and preserved to live at this important time in the existence of our beautiful planet earth. You have a celestial pedigree and therefore have all the necessary talents to make your life an eternal success story.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Beautiful, Faithful, Special

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• Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.' (Women in Love)

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Enough, Said

  D. H. Lawrence, David Farmer, David R. Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, John Worthen (1987). “Women in Love”, p.481, Cambridge University Press

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• Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Fall, Men

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• That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

  Jorge Amado

  Passion, Love Is, Forever

  "Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon".

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