Cease Quotes

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.