Best eternal & has-beens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.”

Long Has Beens Law Causes My Own Evolution Eternal Constitution Association Latent Unchangeable Predestined

Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus

“I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. Have you any idea of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives it for himself.”

“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.”

Years Long Has Beens War Happens Culture Realizing Community Results Imagine Generations One Thing Economic Policy Victory Eternal Victim Including Defeat Disaster Ruins Regions Alas Serbia

Author:Susan Sontag

“The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.”

Mind Has Beens Reason Seems Earth Evil Talent Eternal Mass Instruments Excited Impression Revelations Disgusting Vicious Abhorrence

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.”

People Years Believe Has Beens Stills I Believe Land Eternal Raised Jew Conviction This Day Yearning Historic Forefathers

Author:Ehud Olmert

“From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what you saw; it wasn't knowledge. You were being at one with something eternal; something outside of yourself. And no matter how many fake things have been brought in to suit other conditions... That is still true.”

People Has Beens Art Made Stills Important Matter Emotion Saws Conditions Eternal Importance Suits Made It Fake Correspondence

Author:Milton Resnick

“I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.”

“The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.”

Source: The Stones of Venice

“Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.”

Way Long Has Beens Feelings Found Goes On Taxes Eternal Iron Occupation Relentless Housewife Clutter Housework Watchfulness Really Living Iron Will

Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

“The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a species of Wantley dragon, whose daily food was the brain and blood of hapless writers. ... On the other side, the author has been considered, like Shelley, 'an eternal child,' in all that relates to practical matters, and a terrible child at that, - incapable of comprehending details, and unreasoanably dissatisfied with results.”

Children Has Beens War Matter Age Sides Results Brain Blood Terrible Conflict Eternal Species Details Practicals Relate Dragons Incapable Publishers Dissatisfied Comprehending Shelley

Author:Mary Abigail Dodge

“The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.”

Has Beens Character Feelings Law Joy Lying Speak Natural Sea Higher Sorrow Eternal Traits Treacherous Higher Power Deceitful

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.”

Has Beens Eternal Relief

Book:La bâtarde: an autobiography

Source: La bâtarde: an autobiography

“There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.”

“Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has blighted-of the tears it has caused-of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. This doctrine renters God the basest and most cruel being in the universe. ... There is nothing more degrading than to worship such a god.”

Thinking Has Beens Universe Evil Religious Millions Tears Terrible Eternal Worship Misery Driven Punishment Doctrine Insanity Dogma Agony Degrading Infamous

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.”

Mind Has Beens Purpose Brain Divine Eternal Wake Up Senses Unconscious Collectives Ritual Ignored Paganism Collective Unconscious

Author:Zsuzsanna Budapest

“But anyone who believes that the eternal issue of war and peace in Europe has been permanently laid to rest could be making a monumental error. The demons haven't been banished; they are merely sleeping, as the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo have shown us.”

Believe Has Beens War Sleep Issues Havens Eternal Europe Errors Demon Bosnia Kosovo

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.”

World Heart Littles Has Beens Night Stars Behinds Forever Happened Eternal Christmas Timeless Everlasting Bethlehem

Book:A Happy Trails Christmas

Source: A Happy Trails Christmas

“We National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitles on this earth. And this action is the only one which, before God and or German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified: before God, since we have been put on this earth with the mission of eternal struggle for our daily bread.”

People Has Beens Seems Action Earth Struggle Sacrifice Blood Land Policy Eternal Aim Missions Bread Secure Soil Foreign Policy Justified Posterity Daily Bread Our Daily Bread

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.”

Giving Has Beens Left One Day Eternal All Things Denied Eternal Happiness

Book:Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional

Source: Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."”

“Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.”

Years Has Beens Art Two Beautiful Form Law Quality Principles Clear Fashion Months Six Eternal Art Is Hundred Dresses Rational Folly Six Months Ugliness Unbearable In-laws Ephemeral

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!”

Ifs Has Beens Eye Earth Too Much Eternal Delight Lifts Rapture

Book:Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)

“You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.”

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Satan does not have a body, and his eternal progress has been halted. Just as water flowing in a riverbed is stopped by a dam, so the adversary's eternal progress is thwarted because he does not have a physical body.”

Doe Has Beens Body Water Progress Eternal Satan Adversaries Physical Body Dams

Author:David A. Bednar

“Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.”

People May Children Has Beens Different Problem Literature Deals Fiction Possibility Eternal Our Children Science Fiction Genre Exploration

Author:David Brin

“Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider how we have been approaching our life, in light of the fact that we now, in the presence of Jesus, have the option of living within the surrounding movements of God's eternal purposes, of taking our life into his life.”

Has Beens Facts Hands Light Purpose Jesus Heaven Our Lives Movement Eternal Kingdoms Repent

Book:The Divine Conspiracy: Jesus' Master Class for Life : Participant's Guide

Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Jesus' Master Class for Life : Participant's Guide

“It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt... In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal... This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real persecutor.”

“Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.”

Has Beens Meditation Eternal Active Defined

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.”

Looks Has Beens Made Country Home Behinds Greater Feet Land Higher Drink Eternal India Ancient Soil March Other Countries Sage Fountain Brighter

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”

Ifs Thinking Love Life Inspirational Has Beens Problem Truth Left Peace Behinds Attitude Eternal Sixty Left Behind Cliche Peace And Love Secret Love Eternal Peace Problems Love

Author:John Lennon

“All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.”

Has Beens Beautiful Joy Given United Behinds Quality Birth Eternal Fruit Noble Decay Vitality

Author:Egon Schiele

“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”

Life Persons Has Beens Friendship Food Eternal Eternity Swear Gravy Eternal Friendship

Book:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

“We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN”

Source: Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker

“To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.”

Men Mind Has Beens Body Company Sky Streets Eternal Calm Woods Crafts Tone Mind And Body Attorney

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.”

Has Beens Found Lord Eternal All Things Possession Kingdoms Faithful Servant Commandments Associates Tested Inheritance Lds

Author:Marvin J. Ashton

“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.”

World Has Beens Dream Pay Attention Silence Goes On Eternal Eternity Everlasting Hush

Book:The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51

Source: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51

“For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive, because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reality an absolute superior, somehow eternal value; but by shifting this reality to the past ("this-has-been"), the photograph suggests that it is already dead.”

Has Beens Two Real Reality Past Values Belief Results Alive Objects Eternal Concepts Absolutes Photograph Superiors Confusion Delusion Live By Attributes Shifting Been Real

Author:Roland Barthes

“It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is. When it is present, it seems to be eternal, abiding forever, and there is no need to examine it or clutch it. Later, when it has evaporated, you stare in dismay at your empty palm, where only a little of the perfume lingers to prove that once it was there, and now is flown.”

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

“This Church is true. It will weather every storm that beats against it. It will outlast every critic who rises to mock it. It was established by God our Eternal Father for the blessing of His sons and daughters of all generations. It carries the name of Him who stands as its head, even the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. It is governed and moves by the power of the priesthood. It sends forth to the world another witness of the divinity of the Lord. Be faithful, my friends. Be true. Be loyal to the great things of God which have been revealed in this dispensation.”

“If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.”

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”

Source: Book of Disquietude

“Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins”

Has Beens Age Wife Husband Eternal And Love Gray Husband And Wife Exasperation Duets Scolding

Author:James Rollins

“Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Has Beens Poetry Sound Written Poet Eternal First Time Invisible Tablets Good Poetry

Book:The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.”

Has Beens Said Lying Universe Evil Eternal Terror Terrorism Distinction Good And Evil Little Things Atoms Powerless Unimportant Unimportant Things Splitting The Atom

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.”

Giving Has Beens Ends Character Turns Fiction Personality Eternal Surprise Theme Unexpected Variation Predictable Incorrigible

Book:The humanist in the bathtub

Source: The humanist in the bathtub

“Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.”

Has Beens Different Character America Jesus Nations Source Kings Eternal Unique Understood Scary Godly Civics

Author:John Ashcroft

“Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.”

Thinking Has Beens Self Matter Reason Atheism Creation Limits Eternal Faculty Incompetent

Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

“This is perdition: the things to which the heart was attached pass away while the person himself, who is an eternal being, is filled with nothing but emptiness when he should have been filled with God Himself. That is why it is so very important that we turn our focus inward to the source of life that lives forever, even as we ourselves will live forever.”

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