If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
What we share with another ceases to be our own.
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?
Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?
Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.
If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
If you worry too much, it shows in your acting, and it ceases to be effortless.
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.
The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.
