Traces Quotes

143 quotes by 133 authors

at first I thought you were just using me" she said "I definitely am." I just wasn't sure for what. "Asshole!" she said, and punched… — Paul Neilan
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous,… — Margaret Atwood
And what do you want right now?" Right now I itch to heal his wounds and forget my own. He touches my cheek with the… — Simone Elkeles
Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. — Terry Eagleton
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by… — George Eliot
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
I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid in the world… — Kevin Hearne
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked… — Charles Dickens
Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way… — Walter Benjamin
You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper,… — Max Lucado
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you… — Anna Akhmatova
People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow. — Henning Mankell
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It… — Thomas Mann
Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without… — Gretchen Rubin
Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds… — Erin Morgenstern
but it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs--all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram... — Daniel Handler
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. — Rene Char
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have… — Georges Cuvier
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new,… — Henri Poincare
I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors,… — Diane Ackerman

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