Ceases Quotes

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

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

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

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

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.