Cease Quotes

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.

I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.

I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation of rest to those returning home.

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.

We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces.

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

It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

We shall not cease from exploration

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.