I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.
Donald Cargill

I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
Gabriela Sabatini

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Henry Miller

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
John Updike

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.
David Soul

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
Paul Tsongas

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
Mary Wollstonecraft

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Colley Cibber

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Charles Caleb Colton

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
John Witherspoon

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