Constant Quotes

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Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats. — Propertius
The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind… — Boris Yeltsin
The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is… — Thomas Merton
If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling. — Stephen Covey
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered… — Calvin Coolidge
Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration,… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances… — David Hume
Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of… — FranÃ§ois Lelord
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the… — Hunter S. Thompson
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction… — Mario Vargas Llosa
America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression;… — Camille Paglia
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems;… — Ian Mcewan
No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace. — Han Fei
The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. — Harold Pinter
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one… — Tatyana Tolstaya
The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you. — Linda Ronstadt
It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling… — Gillian Anderson
Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one… — Eric Burdon

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