Incessant Quotes
112 quotes by 99 authors
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant…
— Robert Burton
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The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast…
— John Burroughs
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has…
— H.G. Wells
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All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I…
— Maurice Blanchot
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The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a…
— Mary McGrory
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To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare,…
— William Buckland
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The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality…
— Paul Fleischman
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Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a…
— Zhuangzi
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...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it.…
— Lawrence Kushner
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The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and…
— Ashley Judd
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The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Free women and men everywhere must wage an incessant campaign so that these human values become a generally recognized and practised reality. We must regretfully…
— Menachem Begin
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We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to…
— Arthur Lynch
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Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
— Samuel Johnson
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The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness,…
— George Sarton
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