Quotes with constant

  • Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.
  • To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a ''mummified'' form.
  • Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
  • If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.
  • Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
  • A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
  • Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
  • The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, 
 And drinks, and gapes for drink again; 
 The plants suck in the earth, and are 
 With constant drinking fresh and fair.
  • My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
  • The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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  • William Congreve A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • George Jean Nathan A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Alexander McQueen British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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  • Roger Staubach Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Robert Collier Constant repetition carries conviction.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Jules Renard Fame is a constant effort
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Seneca It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Harold Pinter The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Boris Pasternak The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Jonathan Swift Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler 'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bell Hooks ...there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Washington Irving A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Jean François Lyotard A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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  • Ovid All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Barbra Streisand Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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