Remains Quotes - Page 35

• This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.

  Anita Nair

  Light, Darkness, Half

  Anita Nair (2001). “Ladies Coupé: A Novel in Parts”, p.212, Penguin Books India

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• Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads.

  Ben Lerner

  Dream, Moving, Cutting

  Ben Lerner (2016). “No Art: Poems”, p.114, Granta Books

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• Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was  expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: “The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.”

  Edwin Lefevre

  New York, Mistake, Successful

  Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Passive Voice, Arrows

  "Mistakes were made" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. May 02, 2012.

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• We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.

  Duane Elgin

  Reality, Energy, Attention

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• Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers... This is not yet a scientific age.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Artist, Age

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• If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

  Dalai Lama

  Peaceful, Mind, Causes

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Journey, Destiny

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• [My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

  Lemon Andersen

  Motivation, Hate, Inspiration

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• Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

  Tertullian

  Soul, Flesh, Birth

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.426, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wife– a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.

  David Ebershoff

  Mother, Art, Memories

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• We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these.

  Ernest Everett Just

  Beauty, Nature, Knowing

  Ernest Everett Just (1939). “The Biology of the Cell Surface”, Taylor & Francis

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• From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer.

  Caryl Phillips

  Reading, Home, Writing

  Caryl Phillips (2010). “A New World Order”, p.192, Random House

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• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Song, Holiday, Order

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• Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Morning, Sleep, Cat

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• If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

  Mooji

  Ideas, Doers, Ifs

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• Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
  And it stings you for your pains;
  Grasp it like a man of mettle,
  And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures:
  Use 'em kindly, they rebel;
  But be rough as nutmeg-graters,
  And the rogues obey you well.

  Aaron Hill

  Pain, Men, Ems

  'Verses Written on a Window in Scotland'

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• Did you ever see a chameleon catch a fly? The chameleon gets behind the fly and remains motionless for some time, then he advances very slowly and gently, first putting forward one leg and then the other. At last, when well within reach, he darts his tongue and the fly disappears. England is the chameleon and I am that fly.

  Lobengula

  Legs, Lasts, Tongue

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• Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

  James Naismith

  Funny, Basketball, Sports

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• Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language.

  Peter Norvig

  Python, Skills, People

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• I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Country, Needs, Vietnam

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• Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Fall, Our World, Speak

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• In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Unions, Separation, Success And Failure

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• Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation. But when we let go of everything, open ourselves to any truth, and see the world without fear or judgement, then we are finally able to begin the process of peeling off the shell of false identity that prevents our true self from growing and shining in to the world.

  Paul Buchheit

  Letting Go, Self, Expectations

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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