Traces Quotes
143 quotes by 135 authors
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff…
— Martha Beck
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
— Marina Abramovic
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Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which…
— Walt Kelly
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Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if…
— Jacques Monod
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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though…
— Aristotle
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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's justice, and your…
— George W. Bush
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Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment…
— Forrest Church
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No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of…
— Jessie Bernard
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover…
— Michel Foucault
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life…
— Eduard Suess
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The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the…
— Franz Kafka
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