Remaining Quotes

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. (Norman Mailer)
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. View quote
James Baldwin
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. View quote
Albert Einstein
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. View quote
Walker Percy
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us. View quote
Theodor Herzl
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
I am quite ready to acknowledge ... that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead. View quote
Socrates
The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a persons chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective. View quote
David Perlmutter
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. View quote
Dalai Lama
The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop. (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other. View quote
Jean Piaget
Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory. View quote
David Lloyd George
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists. View quote
Thomas Malthus
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive. View quote
Emil Cioran
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. View quote
James Baldwin
19. This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. View quote
Murray Rothbard
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young. View quote
Oscar Wilde
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. (Booker T. Washington)
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. View quote
James Freeman Clarke
All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by president Bashar al-Assad a few days ago here in Damascus. For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here. View quote
George Galloway
It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace. View quote
Kenneth Waltz
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible. View quote
Giordano Bruno