Cease Quotes

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

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

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

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

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

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

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.

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

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.

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

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

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

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

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

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

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

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

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

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.