Remains Quotes · Page 10

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

— Anonymous

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

— Caitlin Flanagan

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

— Lee Bolman

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

— Ramana Maharshi

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

— Marie Curie

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

— Francis Bacon

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

— H. G. Wells

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains…

— Anonymous

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

— Saadi

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

— Ann Hood

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

— Paulo Coelho

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity...

— Anonymous

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do…

— John Eldredge

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

— Francis Bacon

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

— Paul Auster

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law…

— Byron York

I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no…

— Adam Ross

Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as…

— Fukuzawa Yukichi

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the…

— Rajneesh

We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate…

— Ernest Everett Just

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient…

— E. F. Schumacher

I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love…

— Lisa Gardner

Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine…

— Vera Brittain

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of…

— James Allen

The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has…

— Konrad Lorenz

“Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the…

— H. Rider Haggard

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition…

— Jacques Derrida

IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids…

— Rumi

It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called…

— Carl Jung

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

— Laozi

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

— Anne Bradstreet

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

— Emma Bonino

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

— Laozi

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

— Thomas Watson

And the aura of you remains, remains, remains…

— Anne Sexton

“A dream without action remains just that.”

— DON SANTO