Cease Quotes

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

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

The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

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!

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

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.