Top 100 Quotes About Ceases
#1. The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.
H.G.Wells
#2. The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.
Josh Jones
#3. We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#4. When you have something you would die to protect it ceases to be a matter of courage." Niobe explained, "You just know what you have to do and you can't afford fear.
Piers Anthony
#5. Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
Max Muller
#6. The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.
Remy De Gourmont
#7. When a word ceases to be a term of description and becomes merely a term of praise, it no longer tells you about the object: it only tells you about the speakers attitude to that object.
C.S. Lewis
#8. When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
Charles Horton Cooley
#10. At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases to provoke awe and wonder and the traveller sees the alps with the indifferent eye of those who always live there.
Angela Carter
#11. The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you're doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.
Brian Morton
#12. One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
Alice Walker
#13. The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech ... As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere ... When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#14. But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be worshipped he is nothing.
Robert Graves
#15. When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.
Jack Kerouac
#16. If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone Weil
#18. It never ceases to amaze, how often sex and love lead to murder and hatred.
Sparkle Hayter
#19. For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule. 6.
Anonymous
#20. If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.
John Piper
#21. So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip ... In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
Victor Hugo
#24. The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.
Orison S. Marden
#25. When war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous.
George Orwell
#26. Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
Hermann Hesse
#27. No one good or evil ceases to exist; life is energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed; it is recycled. Therefore, it is possible that the pure of heart and the purely evil have been here before and will be here again.
Patricia Cornwell
#28. What we share with another ceases to be our own.
Edgar Quinet
#29. Hypothesis, my dear young friend, establishes itself by a cumulative process: or, to use popular language, if you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. After
C.S. Lewis
#30. A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#31. He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#32. Death makes life meaningless because verything we have ever striven for ceases when life does, and it makes life meaningful too, because its presence makes the little we have of it indispensable, every moment precious.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#33. It is likely that space as we know it ceases to exist and is replaced by some form of chaotic quantum 'foam', where gravity plays a new role in fashioning the forms of energy that can exist.
Anonymous
#34. The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.
Ross Macpherson Smith
#35. Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
Thomas Carlyle
#36. Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#37. A rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.
Vikas Swarup
#38. The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be ... When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#39. It never ceases to amaze me how many people think I kill for fun."
"Don't you?"
"Well, not just for fun.
Karen Chance
#40. Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed ... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. 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.
Jan Egeland
#43. I love breasts. I love the female shape. It's crazy - you can have movie posters with men with machine guns but, oh, God forbid you show the nipples! That never ceases to amaze me.
Helena Christensen
#44. Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.
Julian May
#45. When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
Ezra Taft Benson
#46. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#47. Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.
Sam Storms
#48. Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.
Anaxagoras
#49. Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
#50. Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.
Rebecca Goldstein
#51. If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.
Allen Wier
#53. A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
Simeon Strunsky
#54. Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger ... and more concentrated.
Henri Matisse
#55. When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of the ego, you cannot see it.
Rajneesh
#56. When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#58. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WROTE THAT "if something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#59. Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
George Sarton
#60. God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#61. Truly the Filipino rises to his finest self during trying times, the more trying the times, the finer the rising. Or it is in times of disaster that the Filipino ceases to be a disaster, thinking of others first before self.
Conrado De Quiros
#63. Not, "He shall one day grant a revival, and then next day leave His Church to barrenness." His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people's burdens.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#64. You never actually solve a problem. You just become a better person by understanding it in a better way. Then it ceases to be a problem for you.
Debasish Mridha
#65. There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
Max Eastman
#66. Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
Mahatma Gandhi
#67. In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.
Frederick Lenz
#68. It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
Kevin Kline
#69. If experience requires entry into language, then we cannot experience death, for language ceases. There is no remnant.
Erin Moure
#70. The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. There is one thing that I do find extraordinary and it never ceases to amaze me. That even in this day and age, in any day and age, that people always insist on believing their heroes are men
Lucretia Grindle
#72. A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
Marcel Proust
#73. While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.
William Hazlitt
#74. Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life
Paul Theroux
#75. Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now, now is the Hour, every Hour, every part of an Hour, every Moment, which in its end does begin again and never ceases to end: a beginning continuing, always ending.
Peter Ackroyd
#76. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist.
David Mitchell
#77. Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.
Margaret Fuller
#78. It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.
J.M. Coetzee
#79. Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.
Gilles Deleuze
#81. Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Aphra Behn
#82. The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
James Monroe
#83. When the worry about the baby crying ceases, the worry about the baby not breathing begins.
Jonathan V. Last
#84. If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.
Craig Ferguson
#85. Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.
Jean-Marie Lehn
#86. When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
#87. An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.
Primo Levi
#88. Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#89. Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
Lynda Resnick
#90. Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#91. A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
Alexander Chase
#92. A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.
Marshall McLuhan
#94. When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#95. If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans ... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.
Wilfrid Noyce
#96. Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
John Ruskin
#97. What does Spinoza say in his Ethics? - "Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam." Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. The
Viktor E. Frankl
#98. You know it never ceases to amaze me how people twist your words.I used to et it bother me that I was so misunderstood, but now I realise, I can tell a lot about people by what they CHOOSE to see in me
Karen Gibbs
#99. When the mind is full, the room ceases to be empty
Wang Ping
#100. When I look at myself in the mirror, I wonder where everything has gone. Even the things I used to remember with so much clarity now seem dimmer. What happens to memory when it vanishes? What happens to events when everyone who remembers them ceases to remember?
Dean Francis Alfar
