
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