Cease Quotes

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you've had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching.

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.

Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.

Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.

I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.

I want it to stop," he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.

We should always be learning or we will cease to be able to change or adapt. I think the best work on leadership today is by Ronald Heifetz. His work is focused on adaptive leadership.

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

I do think John Kerry has tried awfully hard to work with Russia and others to have a lasting, significant cease-fire.

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

Man does not cease to play because he grows old, he grows old because he ceases to play.