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  • Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.

  • In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.

    Doubt   Gold   Causes  
  • Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ.

    Agency   Vision   Depth  
  • Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

    Art   Inspire   Purpose  
    Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.
  • To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

    Moving   Heart   Thinking  
    Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.27, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
  • Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.

    Party   Sleep   Faults  
    "Do It for the Kids". Chat live with readers, www.slate.com. December 21, 2015.
  • Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.

    Machines   Body   Return  
  • Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

    Ben Nicholson (2002). “Ben Nicholson”
  • Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

    "The quest for more creative, ambitious marketing - read the webchat again" by Matthew Caines, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2016.
  • In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.

    Growth   Gold   Sound  
    "The Growth of the Law". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1924.
  • O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

    Gold   Quests   Vain  
    Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”
  • Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

  • I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

  • My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

    Mother   Missing   Use  
  • Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

    T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.64, University of Texas Press
  • Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

    William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”
  • I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

    'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [247]
  • Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.

    Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2007). “General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

    "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 75, 1678.
  • The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

    Spring   Wind   Machines  
  • 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'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

    "Spielberg: Israel Entitled to Strong Response". Time Magazine Interview, www.ynetnews.com. June 12, 2005.
  • There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

    Fear   Mind   Desire  
    Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
  • We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

    Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.22, Penguin
  • All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

    "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands, volume I; lecture 1, "Atoms in Motion"; section 1-2, "Matter is made of atoms"; p. 1-2, 1964.
  • I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so...ordinary.

  • According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

    God   Moving   Wind  
  • Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

    Lying   Flux   States  
    "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.
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