Continual Quotes

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.