We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that 'tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction, we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation.
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.
life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -
Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.
Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.
Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.
Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.
May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant
Life is a constant process of dying.
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.
As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals whowhat we are.
I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.
On constant learning: If you're going to live a long time, you have to keep learning. What you formerly knew is never enough. So if you don't learn to constantly revise your earlier conclusions and get better ones ... you're like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.