Continual Quotes
323 Continual quotes by 253 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.
— Andy Stanley
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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
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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
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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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My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to…
— Arianna Huffington
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There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels?…
— Bertrand Russell
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Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the…
— David Abram
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RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
— William Shakespeare
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What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of…
— David Malouf
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There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished…
— Christopher Hitchens
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However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for…
— Herman Melville
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All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does…
— Mother Teresa
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