Incessant Quotes
112 Incessant quotes by 99 unique authors
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The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
— Donal Henahan
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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
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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
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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
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How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single…
— Andrew Marvell
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No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.
— Johnny Weissmuller
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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
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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
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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
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Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
— Hildegard of Bingen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
— Eric Hoffer
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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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