Ceased Quotes

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.