Ceased Quotes

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that.