Remnants Quotes
76 Remnants quotes by 71 unique authors
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The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.
— Dennis Ritchie
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore…
— John Quincy Adams
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Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel.…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest…
— Eliot Spitzer
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Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient…
— Bill Bryson
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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced…
— Anthony Trollope
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And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing,…
— Samuel Beckett
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My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities…
— Allen Ginsberg
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I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not…
— William Shakespeare
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Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my…
— Bill Bryson
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Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder,…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in…
— Paul Auster
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When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum…
— Thomas Friedman
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The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations,…
— Helen Keller
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a…
— Emile Zola
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was…
— Aimee Bender
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