Continual Quotes

A good conscience is a continual feast.

The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.