Incessant Quotes

• But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Important
  • Whatever
  • Literary

• Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Company
  • Solitary
  • Confinement

• What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • World
  • Sky
  • Soldier

• And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

  

  John Milton
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Prayer

• If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

  

  John Milton
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Incessant

• When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • May
  • Political
  • Matter

• We go in withering July To ply the hard incessant hoe; Panting beneath the brazen sky We sweat and grumble, but we go.

  

  Ruth Pitter
  • Summer
  • Sky
  • Plies