Recedes Quotes

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. - Abu Bakr

There is an ABC ignorance which precedes knowledge and a doctoral ignorance which comes after it. - Michel De Montaigne

Their past precedes them. They've had a great tradition, they've a very good team, hopefully we can do a great job. - Lorraine Moylan

The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making. - Clive Barker

The reputation of a man is like his shadow: it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. - French Proverb

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows. - Charles M De Talleyrand

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. - Howard Hodgkin

The only place success precedes work is in the dictionary. - Leo Hauser

The lake will continue receding during the day, about half an inch an hour. As it recedes, this will help. - Dan Riley

The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. - Stephen R. Covey