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A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.
— James Fitzjames Stephen
That time had a funny way of dimming the edges of reality until only something blurry remained,
— Nicholas Sparks
[..] the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity [..]
— Douglas Adams
Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.
— Morton Feldman
Moscow was burned by its citizens
that is true; not, however by the citizens who remained, but by those that went away. — Leo Tolstoy
that is true; not, however by the citizens who remained, but by those that went away. — Leo Tolstoy
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
— Renee Fleming
the silence remained.
— Patrick Rothfuss
though few believed any of his tales, he remained very happy to the end of his days, and those were extraordinarily long.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Open duh computer." Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication.
— Jonathan Lethem
Beside her, Adam was once again retreating inside himself, most interested, as always, in the thing that remained unknowable to him: his own mind.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
It is interesting, is it not, how we always think most about the one who has gone away and left us? And least about the one who has remained behind?
— Lori Baker
These and other of his words were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed.
— Thomas Hardy
I bent over her and kissed her lips. She embraced me, and we remained like that as the light from the candle sputtered then went out.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What would the public do when Halloween had come and gone but the monsters still remained?
— Kristen Painter
He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God.
— Robert V. Bruce
Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something more.
— John Christopher
And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love ...
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Even after seven years and a failed engagement to another man, my one true heartbreak had remained at the hands of my stepbrother.
— Penelope Ward
On't worry about the goddamn bastards. The two words sounded shockingly violent, because his face and voice remained calm.
— Ayn Rand
I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread ...
— J.R. Ward
Although prey to the dictates of physical desire, he remained no less a romantic man, believing that the realm of women could be shrunk to one woman.
— David Foenkinos
Much to their annoyance, Calvin refused to answer any of their questions. He remained on the ground, silently bleeding at them.
— Brian Cramer
Hal remained a low-grade moron.
— Arthur C. Clarke
One reason abortion remained illegal was because it was so safe.
— Michael Crichton
Among Europe's Great Powers only Austria-Hungary remained without a colonial empire.
— Charles Emmerson
I remembered his expression remained not exactly bored so much as philosophically separate
— Joe Dunthorne
... he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.
— Arundhati Roy
People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
— Barry Humphries
Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle with words.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?
— Frank Herbert
Play dead. She remained on her belly, eyes closed, breathing shallowly. Please, let him think I'm dead.
— Marissa Clarke
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
— Betty Friedan
While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.
— Friedrich Schiller
No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.
— Peter Heller
Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.
— Samuel Butler
They retained their wooden souls, and the curve of their backs had the enigmatic shape of growth itself and remained a part of the decaying forest
— Tove Jansson
If a book remained roadblocked long enough, it began to decay, to fall apart; all the little tricks and illusions started to show. He
— Stephen King
Their thoughts did head in the same direction often enough, but there were times when Etta remained as mysterious as the stars in the sky.
— Alexandra Bracken
All that remained was the curiosity of it all. The wonder of the outside world beyond the veil of lies.
— Hugh Howey
He had so very nearly lost his life, that what remained was wonderfully precious to him.
— D.H. Lawrence
smile remained intact. "He was a colleague and a friend,
— Simon Gould
None of this, of course, was ever stated: the genteel social Darwinism of the English middle classes always remained implicit.
— Julian Barnes
Future and past blurred; what he had already experienced and what he would eventually experience blended so that nothing remained but the moment.
— Philip K. Dick
Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.
— Francesca Lia Block
Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
— Seth MacFarlane
Over time, the real remained in the photo while the hallucinations faded away. I discovered what sorts of things my mind liked to make up.
— Francesca Zappia
Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
— Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
Halt!" Marco remained hidden behind the door. "This area is restricted." The voice sounded distorted. It must have been an Outsider in a mask.
— Dayna Lorentz
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'
— Lillian Gordy Carter
All remained loyal to him, not because they always agreed with him, but because the regent listened to and respected different opinions.
— Nelson Mandela
Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
articulate and define what has previously remained implicit or unsaid;
— Donald T. Phillips
I knew I had looked into the eyes of a lost soul, Austin, the man's outward form remained, but all hell was within it.
— Arthur Machen
I washed his tiny limp resting body; it was then that I finally released the cry, that for so long, had remained stifled.
— Stacy Sorrells
Production cutbacks have remained in place in the third quarter and this has helped to further reduce inventory levels worldwide.
— Lakshmi Mittal
They remained that
— Nora Roberts
The only thing that remained consistent over the years was my ability and enthusiasm to tell the story.
— Herb Trimpe
Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.
— Elizabeth Pena
What remained unsaid was almost too heavy to bear.
— Lauren Groff
I remained Lailah, the redeem soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
The past is not lost. An image from years ago remained present somewhere in the fourth dimension and it reached you just in that moment.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
His pride and her beauty had been in direct conflict, and his pride had remained the conqueror.
— Emmuska Orczy
[U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance.
— Sandor Marai
Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb.
— Anais Nin
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
— George Gurdjieff
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
— Louise Bourgeois
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind
— Edgar Allan Poe
If my father hadn't exactly disappointed me, he remained something unknown, something volatile and vaguely threatening. My
— Barack Obama
Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.
— Neal Shusterman
The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none.
— Patrick Modiano
And underneath it all, there remained an ever present anger and hurt, the feeling of belonging nowhere that comes to people who belong everywhere.
— Zadie Smith
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
— Baruch Spinoza
Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
— Marvin Ammori
It's because you and them were made of the same pieces. And afterwards, when you put yourself back together, some piece of them remained.
— Pleasefindthis
Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him,
— Michel Houellebecq
Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.
— Anne Elizabeth Moore
Her attention remained divided between the page in her hand and, fifty feet away, the closed bedroom door.
— Ian McEwan
No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being
— Roy Keane
He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.
— Randy Pausch
Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.
— Julien Green
...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.
— Adam Haslett
Maxwell waved Kim and I into his office, and we remained at attention while he was on the phone.
— Jason Kristopher
Oh were playing nice now?" Puck remained seated, looking anything but compliant. "Shall we have tea first? Brew a nice pot of kiss-my-a*s?
— Julie Kagawa
The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.
— Philip K. Dick