#ceased

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#ceased #country #course #equipped #first

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#always #ceased #emotions #love #people

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#began #believe #bible #ceased #discover

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#become #business #ceased #dreams #everybody

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time. ↗

— Robert Matsui

#any #before #charges #day #deceased

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#brought #ceased #dealing #devoted #having

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #ceased #certainly #computer #computer industry

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#our #patch #roberto #season #silent

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#been #beginning #born #creation #deceased