Cease Quotes

• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

  T. S. Eliot

  Travel, Adventure, Science

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• I saw Hulk Hogan the other day in a parking lot, and I couldn't tell from a distance if it was Hulk Hogan or not. And I realized I've never had that dilemma before. I've always been able to tell immediately when looking at anybody if they were or were not Hulk Hogan.

  Kyle Cease

  Funny, Distance, Able

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• Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.

  William Shakespeare

  Worst, Climbs

  William Shakespeare, James Robert Ballantyne (1858). “Shakspere's Play of Macbeth”, p.92

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• Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Motivational, Success, Hope

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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Moving On, Wise, Moving Forward

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Faith, Real

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2014

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• I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

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• The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.

  John Gresham Machen

  Family, Christian, School

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• This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

  Jane Addams

  Dream, Men, Competition

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Confidence, Creativity, Oneself

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• Like the children we will never ever cease to be.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children

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• All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Independent, Men, Law

  William Batchelder Greene (1843). “The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications”, p.7

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• The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Faith, Blood, Church

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• As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Firsts, Shame, Christ

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• Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you wish for yourself. Be a tender-minded steward of creation.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Caring, Circles, Suffering

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• The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody.

  Max Horkheimer

  Dark, Thinking, Ideas

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.31, A&C Black

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• Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Boys, World, Eccentric

  James Kenneth Stephen, “To R. K.”

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• The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Land, Shadow, Tasks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 378), 1895.

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• Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.

  Roman Vishniac

  World, Might, Duty

  "Testament to a Lost People". www.nytimes.com. 1983.

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• High SQ demands the most intense personal integrity. It demands that we stand open to experience, that we recapture our ability to see life and others afresh, as though through the eyes of a child, to learn how to tap into our intuition and visualization, as a powerful means of using our inner knowing to “make a difference.” It demands that we cease to seek refuge in what we know and constantly explore and learn from what we do not know. It demands that we live the questions rather than the answers.

  Danah Zohar

  Children, Powerful, Integrity

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• Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Hands, Creating

  Errico Malatesta (1965). “Errico Malatesta: his life & ideas”

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• Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!

  Roger Bacon

  Looks, World, Dogma

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• The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Osiris, Order

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