Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
I often wish… that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.
It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That’s ridiculous.
Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that’s at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we’ve got to stop that.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons – to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.
We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that’s what we have. Everything that we’ve had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
I don’t fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don’t do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn’t trouble me at all.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
Cash as a physical entity will virtually cease to exist, with coins and checkbooks consigned to museums. As people conduct their financial transactions on hand-held devices made secure by advanced biometrics, even tipping will be done electronically.
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
God’s inexplicable. God is beyond the everything. And yet we can’t cease to blather about it.
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.
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.
When a story is flying along, and I’m so into it that my ‘real’ world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a ‘flow state,’ and it’s better than publication, money, awards, fame.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.
I’m still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ’s words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
Faith is not a thing which one ‘loses’, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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.
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
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 scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.
I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can’t cease it.
The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
We should not make the mistake of equating the E.U. with Europe. Outside the E.U., we wouldn’t cease to be Europeans. But, an exit would definitely risk losing those opportunities for our children while growing no similar opportunities elsewhere.
The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.
What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
People really are very concerned when they put their head on the pillow at night – they’re concerned that America may cease to be what America has been because we are leveraging the future of our children and our grandchildren.
If these theatres didn’t exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory – and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
