Receding Quotes

43 quotes by 38 authors

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at… — Steve Toltz
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come… — Wallace Stevens
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. — David Foster Wallace
All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far… — Virginia Woolf
Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldnâ€™t calculate my steps. I didnâ€™t have time for contemplation. In violence it is… — Alice Sebold
Imagine you are walking down a leafy pathâ€¦The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon.… — Azar Nafisi
Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldnâ€™t. Theyâ€™re like a song you hate but canâ€™t ever get completely out of your… — Sara Zarr
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed… — Naomi Wolf
In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed,… — Lawrence M. Krauss
God is an ever receding pocket ofï»¿ scientific ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller asï»¿ time moves on. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug… — Caitlin Moran
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of… — Jim Morrison
Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it… — Robin Lane Fox
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look… — Gene Hackman
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug… — Caitlin Moran
Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils… — Richard Lamm
Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me. — Greg Fitzsimmons
Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding. — Lindsey Graham

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