#cease

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#change #exempt #flux #law #little

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. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#broken #cease #habits #life #only

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. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#any #cease #china #corner #democracy

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. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#capital #cease #cease to exist #cent #command

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. ↗

— Joshua Sylvester

#deceased #delighting #forsaken #ghosts #graves

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#cease #compromises #fact #facts #investigation

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty. ↗

— John Agar

#archaeologists #deceased #publicity #royalty #underpaid

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. ↗

— Michael Behe

#basic #causes #cease #complex #composed

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#ceases #pleasure #secret