Constant Quotes
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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
bruce lee— Striking Thoughts (2000, p. 5)
Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.
Edmund Burke— No. 1, p. 172 in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A New Edition, v. VIII. London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1815.
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
— Christina Baldwin, in One to One (1977)
Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant ra~onale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.
Anatol Rapoport— Anatol Rapoport, "Outline of a probabilistic approach to animal sociology: I." The Bulletin of mathematical biophysics 11.3 (1949): p 183
In civilized societies today ... clitoris envy, or womb envy, takes subtle forms. Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.
elizabeth gould davis— The First Sex, ch. 9 - The Sexual Revolution (1971).
The thing that really breeds career longevity in this profession is doing good work. You can make $20 million a movie, but does that mean you'll still have a job when you're 60? It's a profession that eats people up and wants constant turnaround, so you have to dedicate yourself to learning and making the most of whatever gift you may have.
ethan hawke— New York Daily News (2000-05-11)
Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion.
Sonu Nigam— Indian musician, singer, composer, music producer, recordist, music programmer, live performer and actor
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.
Abraham Cowley— Anacreon II, Drinking
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
George Crabbe— 1807 Poems,'The Parish Register', pt.1, l.273-4.
Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.
— AD 533 Institutiones, pt.1.
The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model—whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.
bruce fairchild barton— As quoted in Fables of Abundance: a cultural history of advertising in America (1994) by Jackson Lears
I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.
dorothy day— "On Pilgrimage," Catholic Worker (December 1968)
… Lewis will be remembered most for his unfailing commitment to justice as a concept that must rise above politics. For it is the Constitution, not any party, ideology or official, that merits Americans' constant allegiance.
anthony lewis— Star Tribune staff (December 21, 2001). "Lewis and the law - Powerful writing rooted in respect". Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, Minnesota): p. 32A.
A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
vince lombardi— New York Times (10 Dec 1967)
Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrixEx aliis alias reddit natura figuras.Nec perit in toto quidquam, mihi credite, mundo,Sed variat faciemque novat: nascique vocaturIncipere esse aliud, quàm quod fuit antè; moriqueDesinere illud idem; quum sint huc forsitan illa,Haec translata illuc; summâ tamen omnia constant.
ovid— No species remains constant: that great renovator of matterNature, endlessly fashions new forms from old: there’s nothingin the whole universe that perishes, believe me; ratherit renews and varies its substance. What we describe as birthis no more than incipient change from a prior state, while dyingis merely to quit it. Though the parts may be transportedhither and thither, the sum of all matter is constant.
— XV, 252-8 (translated by Peter Green).
‘When you teach them—teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what is right.’
christopher paolini— Murtagh, in parting words to Eragon
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
anthony robbins— As quoted in The Educator's Book of Quotes? (2003) by John Blaydes, p. 57
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
benjamin disraeli— Benjamin Disraeli, Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland (1867-10-29); reported in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), vol. 2, part 4, p. 487.
Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn’t take, their constant bickering and smallness, it’s like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don’t scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.
Donald Barthelme— “Aria”, conclusion
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
charles darwin— volume I, chapter VII: "On the Races of Man", page 225
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
malcolm (malcolm little) x— p. 22 (Speech in Detroit, Michigan (April 12, 1964))
Turkish denialism of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians is official, riven, driven, constant, rampant and increasing each year since the events of 1915 to 1922. It is state-funded, with special departments and units in overseas missions whose sole purpose is to dilute, counter, minimise, trivialise and relativise every reference to the events which encompassed a genocide of Armenians, Pontian Greeks and Assyrian Christians in Asia Minor.
— Elizabeth Burns Coleman, Kevin White, Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society, p.82
We shall go according to the constant usage within memory.
— Jefferies, C.J., Sacheverell's Case (1684), 10 How. St. Tr. 72.
Dark tree! still sad when other's grief is fled, The only constant mourner o'er the dead.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Giaour, line 286, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 255.
...throughout the world , except in the abodes of the guilty , goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger , are turning the tide of world war by their prowess and their devotion.
— Winston Churchill, in The Most Dangerous Enemy: An Illustrated History of the Battle of Britain, p.165
constant dropping wears away the stone.
— "A steady effort can achieve, little by little, a great effect, as many drops do by gradually dissolving and eroding the stone."
— Source for meaning: Paczolay, Gyula (1997). "71". European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese. Veszprémi Nyomda. p. 349.
Love and grief our hearts dividing, With our tears His feet we bathe; constant still, in faith abiding, Life deriving from His death.
james allen— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 371.
The slave who digs in the mine or labors at the oar can rejoice at the prospect of laying down his burden together with his life; but to the slave of guilt there arises no hope from death. On the contrary, he is obliged to look forward with constant terror to this most certain of all events, as the conclusion of all his hopes, and the commencement of his greatest miseries.
blair hugh— P. 550. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
