Perennial Quotes - page 3

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. (Margaret Atwood)
If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy. View quote
Christina Romer
A perennial problem of any organization which is involved in systems work of a changing nature is the need for the organization itself to change as it adapts to new opportunities, new objectives, new equipment, and new people. View quote
Harold Chestnut
We have retreated from the perennial values. I don't think that we need any new values. The most important thing is to try to revive the universally known values from which we have retreated. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the integral approach to recognize and honor the Great Holarchy of Being first elucidated by the perennial philosophy and the great wisdom traditions in general... The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well. View quote
Ken Wilber
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There are a number of purely theoretical questions, of perennial and passionate interest, which science is unable to answer, at any rate at present. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities. View quote
Alan Watts
That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities. View quote
Alan Watts
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. (Albert Pike)
When it comes to the Middle East, Trump again has the advantage of being an unknown quantity. Although he has talked a lot of nonsense about foreign policy, he has also insisted on a valid point: the current US policy simply doesn't work. That, in turn, might persuade him to look for something different, creating at least an opportunity for repairing some of the damage done by Obama's wayward policies to peace and stability in the Middle East. Clinton, in contrast, already has a record. She backed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt before Obama decided to ditch them. She was co-pilot in Obama's disastrous policy in Libya. On the perennial Arab-Israeli conflict, she did the hoola dance choreographed by Obama, going round and round and getting nowhere. Clinton was also in the driving seat when the US launched secret talks in Oman with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a textbook example of diplomatic chicanery that led to the great swindle known as "the Iran Nuclear deal.”. View quote
Amir Taheri
It is her total professionalism and perennial striving for perfection that elevated Moira from the merely blonde to the maxi-talented. View quote
Jani Allan
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. View quote
Amos Bronson Alcott
The needs that are met by tyrants are as real as those to which freedom answers; sometimes they are more urgent. Tyrants promise security - and release from the tedium of everyday existence. To be sure, this is only a confused fantasy. The drab truth of tyranny is a life spent in waiting. But the perennial romance of tyranny comes from its promising its subjects a life more interesting than any they can contrive for themselves. View quote
John N. Gray
Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
Patient, dramatic, serious, genial, From over to over the game goes on, Weaving a pattern of hardy perennial, Civilisation under the sun. View quote
Gerald Bullett
The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Take responsibility for your own happiness, rather than claiming telepathy you don't have (unless you are telepathic) or ascribing to others ugly thoughts you can't verify, and aiming endless, nonspecific blame for your mediocrity at the Trilateral Commission, "the media,” SKULL, the RAND Corporation, the long-disbanded Treemasons, the MAN, the Black Helicopter Legion, or the perennial favorite of paranoiacs, "Them.”. View quote
Malcolm Azania
I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is. View quote
Cal Ripken
Thatcher also gave the following quote a few weeks later : I was brought up by a Victorian grandmother. You were taught to work jolly hard, you were taught to improve yourself, you were taught self-reliance, you were taught to live within your income, you were taught that cleanliness was next to godliness. You were taught self-respect, you were taught always to give a hand to your neighbour, you were taught tremendous pride in your country, you were taught to be a good member of your community. All of these things are Victorian values. [...] They are also perennial values as well. (Margaret Thatcher)
For all the turmoil; for all the times you have been let down, or frustrated at the hand you've been dealt; what I have seen from your generation are perennial and quintessentially American values. Altruism. Empathy. Tolerance. Community. And a deep sense of service that makes me optimistic for our future. View quote
Barack Obama
More than twenty-five centuries have passed since that which has been called the Perennial Philosophy was first committed to writing; and in the course of those centuries it has found expression, now partial, now complete, now in this form, now in that, again and again. View quote
Aldous Huxley
But happily there is the Highest Common Factor of all religions, the Perennial Philosophy which has always and everywhere been the metaphysical system of prophets, saints and sages. It is perfectly possible for people to remain good Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, or Moslems and yet to be united in full agreement on the basic doctrines of the Perennial Philosophy. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The Bhagavad-Gita is perhaps the most systematic scriptural statement of the Perennial Philosophy. View quote
Aldous Huxley