Constant Quotes
1855 quotes by 1433 authors
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Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be…
— Joshua Ferris
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Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of…
— Rajneesh
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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading,…
— Hannah More
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Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to secede from the…
— Walter E. Williams
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Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth;…
— Frank Chodorov
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Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired…
— Anton Chekhov
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Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion…
— Alonzo Mourning
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I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant…
— Philippa Gregory
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When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.
— David Arquette
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I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek…
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little…
— Hugh Prather
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No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self…
— E. Stanley Jones
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The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them…
— Jimmy Reid
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The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to…
— James A. Michener
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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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