Remain Quotes - page 3

The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity. (William James)
Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human. View quote
Graham Greene
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. View quote
Harry Houdini
Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve. View quote
Xi Jinping
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk. View quote
Richard Burton
Alas it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. View quote
John Ruskin
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter. View quote
Margaret Mead
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. (Anne Rice)
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die. View quote
Philip Roth
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily. View quote
Stephen Fry
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. View quote
Seneca
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. View quote
Anaïs Nin
It has been said that time heals all wounds, I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but is never gone. View quote
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. View quote
George Santayana
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. View quote
Edith Wharton
Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case. View quote
Simon Conway Morris
Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner. (François Gautier)
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. View quote
John Calvin