Recedes Quotes

50 quotes by 45 authors

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet… — Gwendolyn Brooks
Nothing recedes like success. — Walter Winchell
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the… — Elie Wiesel
I think that physics is the most important-indeed the only-means we have of finding out the origins and fundamentals of our universe, and this is… — Unknown Author
The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it. — Ginnifer Goodwin
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. — Unknown Author
There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the… — Diane Ackerman
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the… — Avital Ronell
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness. — Claude Bernard
The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes. — Haridas Chaudhuri
Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. Itâ€™s the same for you. Itâ€™s the same for everyone. — Chica Umino
The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of… — Stephen Covey
There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his… — Kirpal Singh
Nothing recedes like progress. — E E Cummings
Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach. — Greg Iles
To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes. — Edmund Burke
The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the… — Mahatma Gandhi
As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to… — Unknown Author
The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. — William Butler Yeats

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