Remnants Quotes

• Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.

  Bill Bryson

  Dancing, Tunes, Watches

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Blue, Sky, Humanity

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• Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Israel, Europe

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• The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

  John Updike

  Cutting, Boys, Hair

  John Updike (2012). “Tossing and Turning”, p.53, Knopf

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• You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Waiting, Want

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

  William Congreve

  Art, Phrases, Deals

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Bonduca”

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• Time is short. The world is at the brink of eternity. Right now we have the greatest opportunity to rise up and take the victory of the cross to the last corners of this earth. The Lord Jesus is graciously calling a remnant to the joys of simple obedience. For those who respond, I believe there is an opportunity right now to share in the last great move of God before Christ returns.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Jesus, Believe, Moving

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books

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• A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Littles, Tiny, Little Things

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• There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.

  Paul Auster

  Men, Decision, Solitude

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• The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Mean, Men

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• In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

  George Eliot

  Country, Book, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1303, Wordsworth Editions

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• Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

  Widad Akrawi

  Country, War, Profound

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• I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.

  Jojo Moyes

  Air, Composer, Transport

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.170, Penguin

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• I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape of the picture again... The pictures are alive because of the white remnant, the almost concealment.

  Arnulf Rainer

  White, Relax, Tiny

  Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1989). “Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition”, Not Avail

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• Kisses are the remnants of paradise.

  Joseph Conrad

  Kissing, Paradise

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• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Imagination, Touching, Waste

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (4), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Adventure, Men

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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• Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Names, People, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 20, 2010

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• Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Names, Stories

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.107

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• A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum of an ice age, life reduced to mineral crystals. [. . .] I drove at great speed, as if escaping, pretending we could escape. Although I knew there was no escape from the ice, from the ever-diminishing remnant of time that encapsuled us.

  Anna Kavan

  Escaping, Ice, Age

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• We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Hate, War, Hero

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• My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Book, Space, Waiting

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.32, City Lights Publishers

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• At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

  Martin Luther

  Morning, Sleep, Heart

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• The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Strong, Pain

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.94, Penguin

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• The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such a struggle. Before a brand-new social system can be built on the site of the old, the site must be swept clean. Invariably, remnants of old ideas reflecting the old system remain in people's minds for a long time, and they do not easily give way. After a co-operative is established, it must go through many more struggles before it can be consolidated. Even then, the moment it relaxes its efforts it may collapse.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Ideas, Long

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.33, China Books

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