#cease

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#decrease #desire #growth #must #only

Pagan lifted one shoulder and I prayed by all that was holy that she’d take off that pink bra. This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#ceaseless #death

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#cease #environment #exercise #faith #his

Men at some time are masters of their fates... ↗

— William Shakespeare

#julius-ceaser #men

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#ceases #exist #expression #freedom of expression #offend

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #cease to exist #exist #facts #ignored

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ↗

— Mark Twain

#ceased #had #i #opportunity #see

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#being #california #cease #come #mightily

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. ↗

— Andre Breton

#cease #certain #certain point #communicable #contradictions

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