Ceases Quotes

412 Ceases quotes by 312 unique authors

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man. — Fridtjof Nansen
[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what… — Milan Kundera
Receiving and giving are opposite energies that are inextricably linked together in the natural flow of life, like inhaling and exhaling. If one aspect of… — Shakti Gawain
Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness. — Rabindranath Tagore
God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. — Eric Hoffer
I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases — Mark Twain
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all. — Unknown Author
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases… — Thomas Carlyle
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,… — Thomas Carlyle
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. — Jean Cocteau
What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes… — Jean Cocteau
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man. — Andre Gide
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… — James A. Baldwin
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide. — Cyril Connolly
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess
Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get… — Paulina Porizkova
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.… — Shane Smith
When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been… — Maximus the Confessor
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… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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… — Thomas Jefferson
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.… — Kevin Kline
The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously. — Malaclypse the Younger
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me. — David Ginola

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