If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.