Quotes About Trace

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

You don't build a 100 ft robot out of nothing.....there's rumors and gossip, trace evidence. There's a shadow economy out there, where these things get done.

The Natchez Trace seemed much safer to him than risking a sailboat from New Orleans to Washington

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.

It is not given me to trace The lovely laughter of that face, Like a clear brook most full of light, Or olives swaying on a height, So silver they have wings, almost; Like a great word once known and lost And meaning all things.

Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

nothing matters but the quality of the affection— in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove

The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.

trying to trace out my future in the lives of the people

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.

C'est beau de ne pas laisser de trace. Si je pense que les pas des premiers astronautes sur la Lune ont laissé des empreintes qui sont encore là par manque de vent et de pluie, je bénis les miens qui se recouvrent. La trace indélébile du gros soulier d'Armstrong est une idée fixe pour moi, je voudrais aller là-haut avec un balai pour l'effacer. (p. 37)

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime.

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

I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of course, in American history, but they're hard to write about because they don't leave much of a historical trace, and they're not usually involved in high-profile public events.

In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.

The realization that baryonic matter is only a trace component of the universe revealed our understanding of the cosmos as shockingly incomplete and was one of the milestones that ushered in the era of modern cosmology.

I don't want any memorials or a grave which my children would have to look after or feel guilty about. I don't want to leave any trace except for the work I have done.