#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 life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#continual #good #good man #his #life

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#conflict #continual #england #had #roses

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

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#analyze #comes #continually #does #energy

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

— Ma Jian

#before #beijing #books #continually #i

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#choices #continually #girlfriends #i #like

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#continual #desperation #live #men #state

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons. ↗