Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Quotes about forever
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Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Context: The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Context: There is something within all of us that causes us to cry out with Ovid, the Latin poet, "I see and approve the better things of life, but the evil things I do." There is something within all of us that causes us to cry out with Plato that the human personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions. There is something within each of us that causes us to cry out with Goethe, "There is enough stuff in me to make both a gentleman and a rogue." There is something within each of us that causes us to cry out with Apostle Paul, "I see and approve the better things of life, but the evil things I do." So somehow the "isness" of our present nature is out of harmony with the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts us. And this simply means this: That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it. And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every man and see deep down within him what religion calls "the image of God," you begin to love him in spite of. No matter what he does, you see God’s image there. There is an element of goodness that he can never sluff off. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.
“The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.”
Source: The Story of Us
Source: Rules of Attraction
“For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.”
Source: A Rogue's Proposal
“You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.”
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
“When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
“Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.”
Source: Paradise Lost
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.”
Source: Rebel Angels
“Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?”
Source: This Lullaby
Letter to W.T. Barry http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch18s35.html (4 August 1822), in The Writings of James Madison (1910) edited by Gaillard Hunt, Vol. 9, p. 103; these words, using the older spelling "Governours", are inscribed to the left of the main entrance, Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building.
1820s
Context: A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
“The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”
Source: Analects of Confucius
“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”
Source: Parade of Shadows
Source: Dream Work
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
Source: Endymion: A Poetic Romance
“My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.”
Source: Palace of Stone
“I was going to die and it was taking forever.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.”
Source: Next Door Savior
Source: Hondo