(124 quotes found)
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
John Cotton Dana
“He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.”
James Allen
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!”
Monty Python
“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 cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“What we share with another ceases to be our own.”
Edgar Quinet
“Shall not be long but I'll be here again:Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before.”
William Shakespeare
“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.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“And when she ceased, we sighing saw / The floor lay paved with broken hearts.”
Richard Lovelace
