The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.
Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.
God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat. , Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum. ]
Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live
You do not know what you are going to do,the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing. . . . . . . It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder-you do not know what God is going to do next.
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is. . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. . . the food we eat, the cramped apartments. . . the crowded subways. . . . American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault of the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.
In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.