We Cease Quotes

53 quotes by 46 authors

Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief… — Mavis Gallant
In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness… — Thomas Berry
Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. — William Cowper
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about… — Lewis Mumford
A romantic relationship might very well have been initiated by God, but the moment our focus moves from our Prince to a human love story… — Leslie Ludy
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives… — Dag Hammarskjold
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. — William Hazlitt
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar… — Anais Nin
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops — H. L. Mencken
The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that… — Og Mandino
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us… — Mortimer Adler
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and… — Wendell Berry
Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed… — Ann Aguirre
The minute we look, we cease being afraid. — Michael Crichton
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the… — James A. Baldwin
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes -all of them. They must remain standing because they are a… — Rod Serling

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