Cease Quotes

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

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

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused.

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

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.