#recedes

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

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#always #does #precede #precedes #thought

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#belief #cooperation #educational #factor #friendship

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#building #earliest #exclusive #found #history

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#because #face #follows #just #like

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#fact #many #matter #precedes

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#gigantic #him #his #like #man

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

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. ↗