#continual

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#beautiful #brave #brief #butterflies #clever

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#choice #continually #continue #cost #efficient

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. ↗

— Washington Irving

#continually #ears #ever #fat #heading

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. ↗

— Ma Jian

#before #beijing #books #continually #i

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#consent #constantly #continually #industry #makes

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#atmosphere #continual #got #haven #hectic

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#continually #control #decisions #easier #facebook

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be. ↗

— Robert Collier

#exactly #hard #prosperous #see #up

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually. ↗

— Lila Acheson Wallace

#cup #displayed #get #i #look

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children. ↗

— Chris Ware

#been #certain #children #continually #dead