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

Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.
Lajos Kossuth

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
Roger Moore

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Jean-Paul Sartre

People never cease to amaze me.
Tina Yothers

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Anne Rice

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
E. O. Wilson

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.
Arthur Middleton

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Capek

Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ.
Stephen Bayne

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
William Hazlitt

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.
Alexander Duff

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
Robert Jackson

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
Milan Kundera

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore De Balzac

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine