Cease Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (C) Quotes

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

- Brigitte Bardot

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this silence, you will see totally and freshly.

- Bruce Lee

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

- Margaret Cho

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

- Silvan Shalom

I think when I cease to go to the bathroom, then I can call myself famous.

- Amber Benson

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

- Scott Speedman

For months we have seen the government trying to cling to a pathetic pretense of a cease-fire. Surely Peter Hain can recognize that when live bullets are fired at the police and army, that constitutes a breach of even his definition of a cease-fire.

- David Ford

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

- André Breton

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

- Bob Kane

Apocalyptic versions are fall-back systems when the normal systems cease to offer effective answers to the dilemmas of existence.

- Chaim Potok

We will wait patiently and hope the attorney general doesn`t come out with a cease-and-desist order or something like that, ... We`ll keep our fingers crossed.

- Mark Powell

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

- Pearl S. Buck

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

- T.S. Eliot

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

- William Shakespeare

If these theatres didn`t exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

- David Soul

Despite costing in excess of € 1 million per annum to provide, the continuation and availability of the home care, day care and bereavement support services have been ensured largely by the generosity and support of the people of Galway. Without this support, these services would simply cease to exist.

- Michael Craig

I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can`t cease it.

- Gabriella Sabatini

There is this argument that to me is rabidly fascist, which is that one`s worth is in some way or perhaps completely determined by one`s functionality, ... In other words, you cease to have moral worth or your moral worth is somehow lessened when you become disabled, demented, incompetent or terminally ill.

- Carlos Gómez

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

- George Bernard Shaw

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

- Jane Austen

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

- Aldous Huxley

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

Most fathers do want to maintain their responsibilities, both financially and as parents. But their path is blocked by contact orders not worth the paper they are written on. If shared parenting were the norm, not the exception, much of the non-compliance problem would cease to exist.

- John Baker

In return the owners must cease logging immediately and agree to enter into serious negotiations for the purchase and sale of the property,

- Michael Hoffman

Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come.

- Christopher Marlowe

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

- Thomas Campbell

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

- John Adams

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

- Karel Capek

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

- G.K. Chesterton

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs` true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

- Larry Elder

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

- Paul Tsongas

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

- Aaron Krause

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.

- Aaron Nieckula

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

- Abner Louima

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

- Adam Clymer

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

- Adam Houdeshell

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

- Adrian Casanova

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

- Adrienne Camfield

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

- Aftab Dada

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

- Aislinn Ryan

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

- Al Becker

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

- Al Frank

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

- Al Hutchinson

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

- Alan Feldman

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

- Alan G. Hevesi

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

- Alan Rodger

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

- Alana Beard

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

- Alberto Fujimori