#cease

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ↗

— Anais Nin

#become #blindly #cease #dogma #grow

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#becomes #ceases #eventually #first #genre

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you. ↗

— John Owen

#cease #daily #daily work #day #killing

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#ceaselessly #could #disappointment #doubt #duty

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

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#ceased #fear #man #who

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical. ↗

— Alexander Duff

#ceases #church #evangelical #soon #which

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #ceased #certainly #computer #computer industry

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#being #being forgotten #cease #dim #discoveries

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#ceases #desire #heard #his #knowledge