Remains Quotes - Page 2

• At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophical

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.47, Penguin

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• For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here.

  Markus Zusak

  Mistake, Fall, Car

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• Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Buddhist, Siddhartha

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

  George Santayana

  Infancy Is, Progress, Savages

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

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• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

  Life, Spiritual, Women

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

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• Theories pass. The frog remains.

  Jean Rostand

  Frogs, Theory

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• My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery.

  Melissa Rivers

  Mother, Prayer, Recovery

  "Joan Rivers' condition 'remains serious' at NYC hospital, her daughter says" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2014.

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• People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

  Stedman Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Stedman Graham (1998). “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Fire, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Numbers, Crowds, Matter

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Self, Practice, Criticism

  "Philosophical Perspectives on Accounting: Essays in Honour of Edward Stamp". Book by Edward Stamp and Michael J. Mumford, p. 147, 1993.

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• Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Men, Doe, Culture

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Space, Forever, Soul

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• When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Soul

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• Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

  Winston Churchill

  Heart, Brain, Youth

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• What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Pertinent, Calmness, Restraint

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.28, Vintage

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• Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Ideas, Viruses, Messages

  "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Matter, Impossible

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• Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

  William Ralph Inge

  Fashion, Hero, Sacrifice

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• What thou lovest well remains.

  Ezra Pound

  Elysium, Dross, Wells

  Cantos no. 81, l. 134 (1948)

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• It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library, to know, to study. But I have had no passion, I have not written my own book yet! I always found myself alone when we were two. One is not weak when one remains master of one's self in the midst of the most stupefying pleasures.

  Rachilde

  Book, Passion, Self

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• In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an object to be understood and shaped into my own sense of self, the same is true of the play, the novel, the short story. Yet, for some reason, I approach these existing genres with the kind of confidence that the reggae artist approaches any song floating around out there.

  Kwame Dawes

  Song, Artist, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wisdom, Mean, Loss

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