Recedes Quotes

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

We're visual people. We trust, consume, and mentally store what we see. — Brene Brown

Reality recedes until you can't tell who's sane and who's
not. — Haruki Murakami

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness. — Claude Bernard

Nothing recedes like progress. — E. E. Cummings

When grief recedes, grief is like a cloud. — Thomas Golden Jr.

Nothing recedes like success. — Walter Winchell

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself. — Quentin Bell

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

Pain is like rain, it covers your skin and soaks in bone-deep, but it eventually recedes and allows fresh things to grow. — T.A. Webb

You're a goddamn friendship Jedi. — Kim Holden

It is now a three-leg and one and three-quarter-eared cat. The cat still watches NASCAR, drinks beer, and is the smartest one of the three. — Skip Clark

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes. — Haridas Chaudhuri

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. — Robert Penn Warren

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes. — David Lynch

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami

I'd like to be a successful author before my hairline recedes further! OK I'm vain — David H. Millar

The clanging of the cart recedes. Marie-Laure — Anthony Doerr

The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it. — Ginnifer Goodwin

The earth recedes from me into the night, I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful. — Walt Whitman

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty. — Mason Cooley

Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It's the same for you. It's the same for everyone. — Chica Umino

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

Earth recedes ... Heav en opens before me. — Dwight L. Moody

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. — Howard Hodgkin

The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. — William Butler Yeats

I think being optimistic is ensuring your success. If you start out saying 'I've got this problem,' or 'I'm angry at that,' you will not succeed. — George Takei

Someone had said that if you thought about the unthinkable long enough it became quite reasonable. — Josephine Tey

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. — Vaclav Hlavaty

The rancor I once bore recedes, supplanted by admiration and a sense even of loss at the mates we might have been and the times we might have shared. — Steven Pressfield

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present. — Richard Le Gallienne

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes. — James G. Frazer

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach. — Greg Iles

I'm getting angry at liberals. — Stephen Colbert

If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you. — Walt Whitman

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race. — Adolf Hitler

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes. — Edmund Burke

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers. — Michael Pitt