Incessant Quotes

112 Incessant quotes by 99 unique authors

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of… — Thomas Carlyle
The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved… — Arthur Peacocke
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant… — Raymond Chandler
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,… — Mary McCarthy
For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons… — Roger Rosenblatt
It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Those revolutions are not strictly incessant; they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet. The process as… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Writing is an incessant process of discovery. — Robert Hass
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. — Michel de Montaigne
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. — Mencius
Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals. — George Steiner
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. — Paul Cezanne
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going… — Rick Moody
In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with… — Matthew Arnold
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,… — C.S. Lewis
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless… — Marcus Brigstocke
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them… — Lucy Larcom
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. — C.S. Lewis
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an… — Douglas MacArthur
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a… — Robert Anton Wilson
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. — Henry David Thoreau

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