When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness which never again ceases.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me what avails it? Everything lies in this that it should take place in me.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend it ceases to exist.

Experience has taught me when I am shaving of a morning to keep watch over my thoughts because if a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.