#cease

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#ceased #civil #civil rights #death #enough

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#cease #fall #habit #into

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

#again #built #ceased #death #fortress

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. ↗

— Brian Eno

#becomes #ceases #condition #disappearing #enters

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#also #arms #cease #defense #hostilities

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. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#away #begin #cease #give #god

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#ants #armies #beings #capture #ceaselessly

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. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#cease #clinton #despicable #did #him

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. ↗

— Anais Nin

#cease #familiar #function #magic #meaning

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#another #ceased #dreamed #ears #flock