Continual Quotes

323 Continual quotes by 253 unique authors

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men… — Thomas Hobbes
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their… — C.S. Lewis
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and… — Benjamin Franklin
But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and… — Madeleine L'Engle
Creativity is a continual surprise. — Ray Bradbury
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. — Clarice Lispector
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will… — Albert Einstein
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can… — Brother Lawrence
Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not… — Ana Castillo
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things… — Lynne Truss
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy,… — Booth Tarkington
Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive. — Stephen Dunn
Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the… — John Bunyan
Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and… — Oswald Chambers
O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom… — Benjamin Franklin
In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When you say ‘old friend,’ are we talking, like...since the Ice Age?” “No. Of course not.” “Oh.” “It’s only been about four hundred years.” “Ah.… — Richelle Mead
Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old… — Susanna Clarke
As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his… — Alice Munro
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard… — Harold Pinter
Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit. — Andy Stanley
True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or… — Sharon Salzberg
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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