Remains Quotes

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George Santayana

End, Nothing, Emotion

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Impossible, Whatever

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Impossible, Old

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Louisa May Alcott

Faith, Happy, Mother

When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Future, Lost, Else

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
Susan Sontag

Silence, Speech

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
John Locke

Long, Nothing, Same

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
Max Muller

Sad, Feeling, Older

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger

Fact, While, Language

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Impossible, Said

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Long, Once, Word

At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
Ted Nugent

Sober, Remain, Clean

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Long, Someone, Find

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
Doug Coupland

Future, Find, Culture

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Theodor Adorno

Nothing, Thought, Last

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce

God, Artist, Within

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Susan Sontag

Family, Often, Photograph

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
George Gurdjieff

Long, Same, Half

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
Adrienne Rich

Feeling, Thinking, May

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Wendell Berry

Hope, Care, After

Theories pass. The frog remains.
Jean Rostand

Pass, Frog, Theories

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry

Hope, Earth, Survival

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Thinking, Become

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler

Greatest, Single, Parenthood

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia

Art, Busy, Fashion

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.
Julie Andrews

Same, Camera, Front

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
Sarah Bernhardt

History, Spite, Legend

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Auguste Renoir

Beauty, Pain, Passes

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Nature, Human, Soul

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