#recede

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

#century #changed #did #hardly #just

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#good #goodness #great #history #over

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. ↗

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#blackness #child #does #forgets #i

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity. ↗

— Perry Christie

#bahamas #economic #economic activity #headed #unprecedented

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#current #era #helping #historical #history

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#documenting #era #i #living #part

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#being #ever #having #home #me

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#attended #church #decision #each #eternal

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. ↗

— Richard Owen

#critical #degrees #had #him #his

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#enemy #establishes #even #guard #himself