Cease Quotes

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Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell… — Michael Ruhlman
People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But they… — Olivier Clement
In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. It must cease the persecution… — George W. Bush
The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease. — Yasser Arafat
If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given… — Ursula K. Le Guin
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do… — Epictetus
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things. — Boethius
Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled… — Boethius
Youâ€™re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics… — John Barth
For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease… — Sigmund Freud
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. — Otto von Bismarck
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense… — Jacques Barzun
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has… — Eugene Ionesco
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall… — Henry George
I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the… — Malcolm X
If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face… — Ernest Holmes
If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What… — Meg Rosoff
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And… — Alcibiades

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