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Quotes About Remains

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.
~ Emma Bonino
The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.
~ Paul Wolfowitz
We can demonstrate to the world that the U.K. remains a beacon for opportunity, fairness, and democratic leadership.
~ Andrea Leadsom
I think Chris' favorite role was in 'Remains of the Day,' which was the Merchant Ivory film that he shot not long before his accident, a couple years before. He loved working with Merchant Ivory.
~ Dana Reeve
Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.
~ bernanos georges iii
Of those cities will remain what passed through them, the wind!
~ Bertolt Brecht
A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is looking.
~ Gregory Maguire
Lesser peaks they once inhabited; but ever the men from the plains would scale the slopes of rock and snow, driving the gods to higher and higher mountains till now only the last remains.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
A chap was digging a pond for his carp in the garden behind his terraced house in the small town of Raunds, when he unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon body. Because he'd seen 'Time Team', he knew exactly what to do with it - he cleaned it very respectfully and then called the local archaeologist, who called us in.
~ Tony Robinson
Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past - not just through historical documents, but through actual physical remains - objects, buildings and the layout of our towns.
~ Alice Roberts
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
~ Henry David Thoreau
a group of villagers in the highlands of Vietnam, he'd discovered the crash site of four U.S. soldiers who had gone missing fifty years before.
~ Susan Wiggs
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is drossWhat thou lov'st well shall not be reft from theeWhat thou lov'st well is thy true heritageWhose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none?First came the seen, then thus the palpableElysium, though it were in the halls of hell.What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.
~ Ezra Pound
What thou lovest well remains.
~ Ezra Pound
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage
~ Ezra Pound
Every song is the remains of love. Every light the remains of time. A knot of time. And every sigh the remains of a cry. - Every Song
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
And the human then appears as being what remains, somewhat in tatters, of the Arachnean traversed by the sort of blind meteorite that is consciousness
~ Fernand Deligny
And the bones fell to the ground, and other bones fell on top of them, and yet more bones, until there were whole hills and cliffs made of them. Death upon death upon death upon death. And two-legged animals dug up old bones and wondered at them. And then they died as well and lay there, like a rat in the sawdust, waiting to become old bones.
~ Frances Hardinge
And when I gave him the urn, he weighed it in his hand and declared she wasn't quite all there—she'd weighed a full one hundred and sixty-five pounds when she was alive—so he weighed her on a scale and then sat down and worked out that there ought to be another one and three-quarter ounces of her
~ Bohumil Hrabal
In this place, amid sorrow and shame, his own life and the tragic history of his country met. Nothing spoke to him of himself as much as these remains scattered on the naked ground.
~ Boubacar Boris Diop
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
~ Heidegger
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
~ Billy Joel
First love is only once in a lifetime, and it remains only in memory.
~ Jessica Simpson