Traced Quotes

144 Traced quotes by 130 unique authors

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. — Reinhold Niebuhr
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. — Pat Paulsen
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce… — Hu Shih
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as… — J C Watts
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep. — Albert Camus
The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain. — Keith Ablow
I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me… — Augusten Burroughs
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be… — Clive Barker
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like… — Janet Fitch
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
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier
He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever — Jodi Picoult
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such… — Thomas Hardy
The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked... — Chuck Palahniuk
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify… — Stephen Kendrick
They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands… — Janet Fitch
If you can't feel, why did you kiss me?" Patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed south stopping at my heart. I felt… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. — Marcel Proust
Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman… — Lisa Kleypas
He traced the genealogy of the feeling. — Zadie Smith
Tension pulled my eyes open when her fingers traced a trail down my neck. Sensation blossomed, and I threw my head back and sucked in… — Kim Harrison
His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient.… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Then you would hold me up, wouldn't you." He traced over her features with his fingertips. And as he did, for some strange reason, he… — J R Ward
I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already… — Reif Larsen
I love you," she whispered. Richard pulled her tight against him. His fingers traced a trail down the bumps of her spine. "I feel so… — Terry Goodkind

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