Continued Quotes

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. (Douglas Adams)
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. View quote
Arianna Huffington
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. View quote
Helen Rowland
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. View quote
Dave Barry
Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Character is simply habit long continued. View quote
Plutarch
All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them. (William Wordsworth)
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell. View quote
Richard Russo
Often it is only after immense intellectual effort, which may have continued over centuries, that humanity at last succeeds in achieving knowledge of a concept in its pure form, by stripping off the irrelevant accretions which veil it from the eye of the mind. View quote
Gottlob Frege
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to the established society of enslavement. ... Those who bore the brunt of the untrue reality and who, therefore, seemed to be most in need of attaining its subversion were not the concern of philosophy. It abstracted from them and continued to abstract from them. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom; Not made him wander, but continued him home. View quote
John Cleveland
Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories. View quote
Stephane Hessel
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do... Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose... it's like your broken. (Brian Selznick)
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. View quote
Elihu Root
Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation. View quote
Leonard Boswell
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think. View quote
Norman Lear
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know. View quote
Robert Vaughan