#cease

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator. ↗

— Bob Kane

#artist #become #being #cease #credit

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#courage #either #entails #life

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

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#born #ceased #conceived #dissension #distress

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#alleged #avoided #been #ceased #having

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#artist #cease #did #ever #great

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#business #ceaseless #head #heart #only

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#ceased #free #had #i #liberty

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God. ↗

— Lactantius

#believe #ceases #god #him #his

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#fun #i #just #restaurants #stay