Recedes Quotes
50 quotes by 45 authors
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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
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Nothing recedes like success.
— Walter Winchell
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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
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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
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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
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The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.
— Haridas Chaudhuri
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Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone.
— Chica Umino
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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
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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
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Nothing recedes like progress.
— E E Cummings
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Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
— Greg Iles
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To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Recedes Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 50 Recedes Quotes, led by these top contributors: