Incessant Quotes

112 Incessant quotes by 99 unique authors

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. — Donal Henahan
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies… — C.S. Lewis
Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from… — Marion Woodman
The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice… — Charles Spurgeon
How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single… — Andrew Marvell
No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant. — Johnny Weissmuller
If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office,… — Abraham Lincoln
I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish… — C.S. Lewis
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not… — Paulo Freire
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled. — Hildegard of Bingen
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me.… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells… — G I Gurdjieff
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent… — Eric Hoffer
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in… — Lydia Sigourney
You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be… — Thomas McKean
The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity. — Aleksandar Hemon
In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling. — Eric Hoffer
We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her… — Octavio Paz

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