Ceased Quotes
331 quotes by 279 authors
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
— Bernard Baruch
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I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
— Conrad Black
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I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm…
— John Cleese
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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
— Julian Huxley
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced…
— Paulo Coelho
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to…
— F. H. Bradley
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
— Edith Hamilton
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Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.
— Adolf Hitler
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The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was…
— Hermann Hesse
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we…
— Mark Twain
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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and…
— Ramana Maharshi
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And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
— Nancy Astor
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"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud…
— Samuel Johnson
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No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
— Samuel Johnson
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The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled…
— Paul Tillich
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Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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