Quotes about Ceases

When every minute of your day is planned & you are packed for days, you shall soon realize that the pain of past fades, vision of life gets clearer and all that seemed to poison your life Ceases to exist. Votes: 3

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. Votes: 1

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily. Votes: 1

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. Votes: 1

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. Votes: 1

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend. Votes: 1

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. Votes: 1

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me. Votes: 1

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. Votes: 1

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. Votes: 1

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. Votes: 1

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved. Votes: 1

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power. Votes: 1

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Votes: 1

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reactions inside the sun whiz through my body, almost all of which will travel right through the earth without interruption. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor. Votes: 1

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? Votes: 1

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins. Votes: 0

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases Votes: 0

Where pride begins, love ceases. Votes: 0

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also Votes: 0

Love decreases when it ceases to increase. Votes: 0

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach. Votes: 0

He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper. Votes: 0

A truly educated man never ceases to learn. Votes: 0

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. Votes: 0

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. Votes: 0

It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs. Votes: 0

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. Votes: 0

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. Votes: 0

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us. Votes: 0

When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. Votes: 0

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin. Votes: 0

The man who prays ceases to be a fool Votes: 0

Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. Votes: 0

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases. Votes: 0

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. Votes: 0

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. Votes: 0

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch Votes: 0

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody. Votes: 0

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist. Votes: 0

The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me. Votes: 0

What we share with another ceases to be our own.... Votes: 0

Your ability to remain alive never ceases to amaze me. Votes: 0

He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good. Votes: 0

Sir Alex Ferguson ceases to amaze me as a manager Votes: 0

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray Votes: 0

The ways in which language changes never ceases to interest me. Votes: 0

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man Votes: 0

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us. Votes: 0

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man. Votes: 0

Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed. Votes: 0

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. Votes: 0

When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist. Votes: 0

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective. Votes: 0

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function. Votes: 0

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. Votes: 0

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift. Votes: 0

It never ceases to amaze me: the things people care about. Votes: 0

That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation. Votes: 0

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases. Votes: 0

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice. Votes: 0

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience. Votes: 0

Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb. Votes: 0

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art. Votes: 0

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets. Votes: 0

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum. Votes: 0

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support. Votes: 0

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. Votes: 0

Love ceases to be a Puzzle the Moment you find the Missing Piece. Votes: 0

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. Votes: 0

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical. Votes: 0

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness. Votes: 0

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. Votes: 0

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love. Votes: 0

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. Votes: 0

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it. Votes: 0

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal. Votes: 0

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. Votes: 0

Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route. Votes: 0

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. Votes: 0

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. Votes: 0

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such. Votes: 0

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy. Votes: 0

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Votes: 0

Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me. Votes: 0

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child. Votes: 0

An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy. Votes: 0

The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder. Votes: 0

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases. Votes: 0

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[. Votes: 0

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him. Votes: 0

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true Votes: 0

The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so. Votes: 0

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants. Votes: 0

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith. Votes: 0

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. Votes: 0

If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith. Votes: 0

A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered. Votes: 0

Spring procreates, Summer develops, Autumn debilitates & Winter ceases to be. Meeting all forms of life. Votes: 0

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift. Votes: 0

Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being. Votes: 0

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. Votes: 0

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful. Votes: 0

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history. Votes: 0

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living. Votes: 0

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend. Votes: 0

How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another? Votes: 0

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. Votes: 0

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow. Votes: 0

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France. Votes: 0

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide. Votes: 0

When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death. Votes: 0

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak. Votes: 0

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now." Votes: 0

The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all. Votes: 0

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm. Votes: 0

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty Votes: 0

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite. Votes: 0

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. Votes: 0

Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me. Votes: 0

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man. Votes: 0

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god. Votes: 0

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. Votes: 0

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older. Votes: 0

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene. Votes: 0

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted. Votes: 0

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. Votes: 0

Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides... Votes: 0

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are. Votes: 0

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions. Votes: 0

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't. Votes: 0

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. Votes: 0

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive. Votes: 0

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder. Votes: 0

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma. Votes: 0

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. Votes: 0

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. Votes: 0

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant. Votes: 0

The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously. Votes: 0

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. Votes: 0

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself. Votes: 0

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law. Votes: 0

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. Votes: 0

If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story. Votes: 0

If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell. Votes: 0

We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one. Votes: 0

God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid. Votes: 0

Man does not cease to play because he grows old, he grows old because he ceases to play. Votes: 0

It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product. Votes: 0

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. Votes: 0

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything. Votes: 0

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. Votes: 0

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist. Votes: 0

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. Votes: 0

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him. Votes: 0

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all. Votes: 0

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion. Votes: 0

If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own. Votes: 0

But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are. Votes: 0

The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness. Votes: 0

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. Votes: 0

The simplicity of life never ceases to amaze me, and the many ways we complicate it blows my mind. Votes: 0

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it. Votes: 0

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. Votes: 0

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. Votes: 0

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed. Votes: 0

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. Votes: 0

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals. Votes: 0

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head. Votes: 0

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. Votes: 0

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. Votes: 0

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. Votes: 0

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. Votes: 0

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. Votes: 0

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. Votes: 0

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy. Votes: 0

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce. Votes: 0

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. Votes: 0

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases Votes: 0

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged. Votes: 0

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. Votes: 0

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying. Votes: 0

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases? Votes: 0

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence. Votes: 0

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself. Votes: 0

I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just. Votes: 0

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing. Votes: 0

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it. Votes: 0

The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly. Votes: 0

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. Votes: 0

One thing that never ceases to delight me about us women, is the friendship and support that we give each other. Votes: 0

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man. Votes: 0

No one, good or evil, ceases to exist; life is energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed; it is recycled. Votes: 0

Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me. Votes: 0

God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases. Votes: 0

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience. Votes: 0

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. Votes: 0

Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead. Votes: 0

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear. Votes: 0

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else. Votes: 0

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid Votes: 0

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. Votes: 0

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all. Votes: 0

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. Votes: 0

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken. Votes: 0

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame Votes: 0

Sooner or later everything that exists ceases to exist, and then something comes along to take its place, but not always something better. Votes: 0

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space. Votes: 0

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life Votes: 0

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal. Votes: 0

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda. Votes: 0

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me. Votes: 0

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. Votes: 0

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us! Votes: 0

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. Votes: 0

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar. Votes: 0

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space. Votes: 0

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method. Votes: 0

A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation. Votes: 0

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life. Votes: 0

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist. Votes: 0

The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life. Votes: 0

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led. Votes: 0

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace. Votes: 0

I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all. Votes: 0

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me Votes: 0

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist. Votes: 0

Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn't. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you. Votes: 0

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point. Votes: 0

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. Votes: 0

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. Votes: 0

All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases. Votes: 0

Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts. Votes: 0

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model. Votes: 0

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins. Votes: 0

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun. Votes: 0

Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them. Votes: 0

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war. Votes: 0

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way. Votes: 0

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war. Votes: 0

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying. Votes: 0

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. Votes: 0

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him. Votes: 0

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine. Votes: 0

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good. Votes: 0

I don't date Janet Jackson. She is my girlfriend; there is a difference. She is a very special and talented woman who never ceases to amaze me. Votes: 0

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa. Votes: 0

Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity. Votes: 0

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again. Votes: 0

I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive. Votes: 0

When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases. Votes: 0

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own. Votes: 0

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles. Votes: 0

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend. Votes: 0

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority. Votes: 0

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases. Votes: 0

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect. Votes: 0

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy. Votes: 0

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power. Votes: 0

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other. Votes: 0

Circles in water as they wider flow The less conspicuous in their progress grow, And when at last they trench upon the shore, Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more. Votes: 0

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you. Votes: 0

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man Votes: 0

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law. Votes: 0

Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases Votes: 0

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you." Votes: 0

Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the proof is long) that "4" means the same as "2+2". Thus mathematical knowledge ceases to be mysterious. Votes: 0

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing:Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16) Votes: 0

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men. Votes: 0

I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. One ceases to be aware. Votes: 0

When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny. Votes: 0

All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces. Votes: 0

Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged. Votes: 0

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key. Votes: 0

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality. Votes: 0

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. Votes: 0

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"? Votes: 0

It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the centre of the circle to an indefinite point outside its circumference. Votes: 0

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana. Votes: 0

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver. Votes: 0

Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom. Votes: 0

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire. Votes: 0

Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism. Votes: 0

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol. Votes: 0

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it. Votes: 0

If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him. Votes: 0

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move"¦similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle. Votes: 0

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian. Votes: 0

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far from its fall. Votes: 0

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be. Votes: 0

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living. Votes: 0

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart. Votes: 0

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it. Votes: 0

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends. Votes: 0

Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books. Votes: 0

A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0