#ceases

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. ↗

— Brian Eno

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When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#appropriately #becomes #ceases #confirmation #discussion

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

— E. M. Forster

#courage #either #entails #life

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

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#age #attention #beautiful #begins #ceases

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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

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

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#behavior #cease #ceases #individual #intelligent

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. ↗