Constant Quotes

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

Things that are impossible - are everyday experiences when you live in advanced states of mind. You live in a world of constant miraculous awareness.

When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

Once we got going on the Fantagraphics version of Love and Rockets, our encouragement was constant. People wanted us to do more, do more. Thirty years later, here we are.

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

[I spend a] lot [time travelling]. Between the restaurants, filming for TV, producing MasterChef, seeing the kids... it's pretty constant.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

May good fortune be your constant companion.

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.

Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I'm a huge pasta fan.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.

The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.

Nothing is constant except change

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

The one constant in life is baseball

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.