Remains Quotes · Page 39

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

— Anonymous

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

— George Santayana

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

— Elie Wiesel

The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

— Rumi

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

— Joseph Addison

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

— John Locke

You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.

— Steve House

Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that…

— Haruki Murakami

A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with…

— Indira Gandhi

Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to…

— Vincent de Paul

You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains…

— Anonymous

If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it…

— Meister Eckhart

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the…

— Oscar Wilde

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just…

— Hillary Clinton

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the…

— Max Muller

The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true…

— Francis Crick

It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have…

— Lillian Wald

I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.]…

— Frank Kermode

In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important…

— Wayne Muller

Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution…

— Rajneesh

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible…

— Ray Bradbury

I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want…

— Elena Poniatowska

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial…

— Pope John Paul II

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.

— Zhou Yongkang

Britain's police force is institutionally racist. This was the judgement of the 1999 Macpherson report, and it remains the case.

— Owen Jones

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love…

— Frank Herbert

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

— Susan Sontag

Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who…

— John Thorn

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

— Harry Browne

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

— Lorrie Moore

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

— Louisa May Alcott

Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.

— Anonymous

Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may…

— Khalil Gibran

One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but…

— Jay Rockefeller

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

— Jorg Immendorff

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes…

— Victor Hugo