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Perpetual Quotes (page 12)

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information... Anna C. Brackett
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source. Octave Mirbeau
Religious institutions perpetuate a moral master-servant relationship. They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices! Frank Herbert
The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own ends, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In freedom, every non-nomenklatura citizen knew perpetual hunger? the involuntary slurp and gulp of the esophagus. In camp, your hunger kicked as I imagine a fetus would kick. It was the same with boredom. And boredom, by now, has lost all its associations with mere lassitude and vapidity. Boredom is no longer the absence of emotion; it is itself an emotion, and a violent one. A silent tantrum of boredom. Martin Amis
You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change. Sue Grafton
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually... Aldous Huxley
Haruki Murakami quote: "But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world...."
But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion. Haruki Murakami
Katherine Mansfield quote: " always with that magical child air about her, that delightful..."
... always with that magical child air about her, that delightful sense of perpetually attending a party. Katherine Mansfield
Hilaire Belloc quote: "The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always..."
The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers. Hilaire Belloc
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. Anatole France
Anton Chekhov quote: "I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student."
I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student. Anton Chekhov
I, who am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement, make this mark, waiting for some winter's evening. Virginia Woolf
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives. Francis Bacon

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