Cease Quotes

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

Once you think you have the formula for good design, you’re dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.

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

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

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

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you nowhere.

There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.