Perpetual Quotations | Page 2

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Obviously we're touching a nerve.... I would see (the Patriot Guard) as a perpetual group of people who get together for a very long time -- definitely outlasting the protesters.

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

The parties are in a perpetual game of political tug of war. For the past three years, one side has moved the flag an inch, only to lose that ground the next election. It is hard to imagine this parity could get any tighter, but it appears that it has.

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.