#recedes

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#arms #insurrection #precedes #thought

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#ever #faith #gone #heart #i

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#another #draws #honestly #i #life

Existence precedes and rules essence. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existence #precedes #rules

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#always #destruction #effected #precedes #visitation

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#because #created #founded #heaven #human

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#gigantic #like #ones #precedes #proportion

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#atmosphere #becomes #blue #blue sky #body

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

#apostle #bear #comes #death #easier

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#economics #human #human life #life #politics