Cease Quotes - page 3

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? (Winston Churchill)
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved I do not expect the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. View quote
Shirley MacLaine
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. View quote
Charles Cooley
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease. View quote
Bernie Siegel
And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor. View quote
Scott Speedman
People never cease to amaze me. View quote
Tina Yothers
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. View quote
Warren Beatty
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy. View quote
Dante Alighieri
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. View quote
David Rockefeller
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world. View quote
Louis Agassiz
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful. View quote
Alain de Botton
Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun? View quote
Richard Francis Burton
As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs, then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down. View quote
Jacques Derrida
How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings? View quote
Polybius
War, like other dramatic spectacles, might possibly cease for want of a "public." View quote
George Eliot
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. (Marcus Aurelius)
Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be still, sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds is the sun still shining Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight. View quote
John Constable