Perpetual Quotes
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Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.
Stephen Sondheim
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When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
Neil Postman
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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
William Gibson
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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
George Bernard Shaw
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He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.
Sarah MacLean
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare
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... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
Virginia Woolf
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I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.
Walter Inglis Anderson
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The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.
Mike Lee
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Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.
Georges Danton
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Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
Theodore Roethke
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I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.
Katharine Weber
