Quotes About Residue

Success is the residue of planning.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

Silence is the fruit of the occupation; it hangs in branches, seeps from gutters.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

Warfare leaves a residue of 'eat drink and be merry' that often leads inexorably to moral breakdown.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

There was the residue of joy in their tattered yard.

Aunque se reconcilien, siempre de la calumnia algo queda.

Así eran las vidas: cuando sus caminos se cruzaban, quedaban alteradas para siempre por el encuentro, unas veces de una manera leve, casi invisible, y otras de forma tan profunda que ya nada podía ser después igual. El residuo de otras vidas nos contagia, y nosotros a nuestra vez lo transmitimos a quienes encontramos más adelante

When a person is living moment to moment like this and doesn't carry the burden of the past with him, he is a truly sinless person. He does not carry anything with him. Being sinless doesn't mean that he did not do anything with his life. That would be being a dead person. He did everything that a person could possibly do to know life, but his actions never left any residue, nor did he build a personality out of the actions he performed.

karma is action on three levels: body, mind, and energy. Whatever you do on these three levels leaves a certain residue or imprint upon you.

After we're gone the work of our knives will survive this.

I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up inside the window, blowing in as dust across the floor.

I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except

he was like smog: there were always some of his molecules in the air.

Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved-over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of themselves behind. The world was haunted by the past.

el pasado nunca se borraba del todo

Few memories are deep seated like particulate matter...easy to inhale but never exhale fully!

You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.

I think you always take away a little bit of a character with you, and it kinda like hangs on you for a bit, and then as time kind of goes and wears off a little bit.

Nel sonno una cosa ci rassicura, ed è il fatto di uscirne, e di uscirne immutati, dato che una proibizione bizzarra c'impedisce di riportare con noi il residuo esatto dei nostri sogni.

Darkness is the only solvent. While it was dark, despite Lucille's pacing and whistling, and despite what must have been dreams (since even Sylvie came to haunt me), it seemed to me that there need not be relic, remnant, margin, residue, memento, bequest, memory, thought, track or trace if only the darkness could be perfect and permanent.

Prayer opens on something purer and grander than mercy, something that puts aside the consciousness of fault, the residue of judgment that makes mercy a lesser thing than grace.

That kind of party had always scared Daisy, the smell on your clothes the next day and something else that couldn't be washed off.