Remains Quotes · Page 34

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

— Anonymous

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Let's make it clear: it's Ferrari I'm interested in. Drivers, we've had a lot, some very good, some great, but drivers come…

— Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

— Alain Ducasse

To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil…

— Sophocles

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

— Rollo May

“One can't ever be sure what is more valuable: what has gone away, or what remains.”

— Peter Davis

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

— Sandy Berger

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather…

— David Longstreth

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all…

— Lord Byron

Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?"…

— Rachel Vincent

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end…

— Hannah Arendt

The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue…

— Henry Parry Liddon

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of…

— Rollo May

'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The…

— Liam Hemsworth

I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone,…

— Jacques Derrida

Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together…

— Jeanette Winterson

Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to…

— Dallas Willard

The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapse—one that might…

— Janet Yellen

We were very, very lucky [with Tim White filmed making historic discoveries in the East African Rift ] . In 100 years,…

— Werner Herzog

It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books…

— Rachilde

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which…

— Khalil Gibran

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for…

— William Stafford

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

— Gerald R. Ford

America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.

— Daniel Fried

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste…

— William Empson

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we…

— Lesley Hazleton

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

— Virginia Woolf

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite…

— Charles Dickens

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

— Samuel Johnson

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the…

— Frederick Soddy

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

— Boethius

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

— Robert Reich

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto…

— Douglas Coupland

I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light…

— Kay Warren

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

— Anais Nin

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is…

— Albert Pike

It is always the time of hope, confidence and love. Everything passes; love remains. We will not be disappointed.

— Carlo Maria Martini