Quotes of: Recede Keyword

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Chinese

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

Iain McGilchrist

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Will Durant

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

George Crabbe

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

Elizabeth Warren

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

The Realm of the Nebulae

I was voted by my high school senior class as most likely to recede.

Frank Welker

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civ...

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Henry Mayhew

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.

Lindsey Graham

Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Jules Verne

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

Matthew Ashford

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

Chief Seattle

my dear, we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede.

Sanober Khan

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

Sara Paretsky

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Robert Burton

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

Mitt Romney

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

Daniel Day-Lewis