Cease Quotes

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.