George Will

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

Journalist

George C. Wolfe

I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.

American Playwright

Henry Knox

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

American Soldier

James Baldwin

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

American Novelist

Heather Mills

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

British Activist

Robert Louis Stevenson

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Scottish Writer

Jack Schlossberg

We must not become perpetually distracted from the great challenges facing our country and the world.

American Celebrity

Frank Norris

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

D. H. Lawrence

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

English Writer

Michel de Montaigne

French Philosopher

Use 'perpetual' to stress unending duration, often in a hyperbolic sense.

Emphasize Continuity

'Perpetual' can describe something that remains unchanged over time.

Unchanging Condition

Often, 'perpetual' is used figuratively rather than literally.

Not Literal

'Perpetual' gives the sense that something occurs so often it seems constant.

Express Frequency

Sometimes 'perpetual' can imply annoyance at how often something occurs.

Indicate Irritation

Use it to describe an enduring emotional condition.

Emotional State

Use 'perpetual' to suggest that something will never cease or change.

Timelessness

It is often found in discussions of ideas or concepts that transcend time.

Metaphysical Ideas

Refer to 'perpetual' when discussing monuments that endure through ages.

Historical Monuments

 Prometheus was to be chained to a cliff for eternity. Each day, he would be visited by a vulture who would tear out his liver and each night his liver would grow back to be attacked again in the morning. Although Prometheus remained in perpetual agony, he never expressed regret at his act of rebellion.

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 I had already moved 20 times in my life, and that instability during my childhood didn't really provide an opportunity to make many friends. Each time I would begin to feel comfortable around someone, it was time to pack up and move to the next town. Being the perpetual new face in class,

I am the son of a...

 It is a perpetual impulse that pushes galaxies apart from each other. Because dark energy, unlike matter or radiation, does not dilute away as the universe expands. The amount of energy in each cubic centimeter remains the same, even as the universe gets bigger and bigger.

Sean Carroll: Distant...

 a phenomenon for which I would have to constantly and perpetually seek the validation of those it belonged to for me to make progress within it and with it. That was tough for a child; it would be tough for anyone. As I grew up and I advanced academically,

How Africa can use its...

 have anything i wanted as long as i ate it with a knife and a fork trust me it feels ridiculous to eat a snickers bar like this but it helped me be more conscious of what i was eating i learned to be in perpetual motion all day every day

The psychological weight...

 there's anything we can do to help save the population nowadays because we divert so much water upstream this is salt water perpetually throughout the year in the winter and spring normally this water that we're on top of would be

The Water Crisis PIPE...

 and stay there and get worse until the next election. Democracy is becoming a perpetual cycle of elect and regret. At this rate, I'm afraid it is democracy, not China's one-party system, that is in danger of losing legitimacy.

Eric X. Li: A tale of...

 a shadowy opening in a limestone cliff that draws you in. As you pass through the portal between light and dark, you enter a subterranean world -- a place of perpetual gloom, of earthy smells, of hushed silence.

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 The imbalance would keep the wheel turning forever. Bhaskara's drawing was one of the earliest designs for a perpetual motion machine, a device that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source.

Why don't perpetual...

 as the day wears on deep in the heart of this venezuelan mountain george's mission into perpetual darkness