Constant Quotes

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.