- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ceaseless Quotes
Words for what never stops.
This page gathers quotes built around the word "ceaseless," used here for stalled political grind, long conflict, and suffering that drags on without pause. A few lines connect naturally to our Battle collection on facing hardship.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Afghans long ago resigned themselves to this sort of thing. Compromises must be made. Deals with the devil are better than ceaseless butchery. In the exigencies of post-conflict bygones, against the threat of collapse into more terrible bloodletting, the ugliness of realpolitik is the lesser evil.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things.
- Let Us
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to live under the threat of constant attack from enemies right next door, under ceaseless and often unfair international scrutiny, defending his homeland by day and living with the memories of mass genocide at night.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brexit is a ceaseless grind of conversations about customs unions and backstops. Anything that can add an air of whimsical, childlike wonder to proceedings can only be a good thing.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
- Grass Roots
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world of cell phones and satellite feeds - a world in which the president can sit in the White House situation room and watch a military action unfold on the other side of the world - it is not realistic to expect TV news to be anything but what it has become: a ceaseless flow of words and images that may or may not be accurate.
- Exploits
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- Nov 07, 2020