#cease

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ceased #fate #makers #our #pose

What we share with another ceases to be our own. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#ceases #our #own #share

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. ↗

— Anne Rice

#always #believe #cease #devil #difficult

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#anything #considerable #deceased #dies #first

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#bred #ceases #certainties #change #doubts

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#ceases #certainty #doubt #doubts #entirely

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#am #basically #cease #contribute #convinced

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#artist #being #ceases #childhood #grows

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman! ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#cease #character #detrimental #equal #folly

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more