#recedes

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

Nothing recedes like progress. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#nothing #progress #recedes

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

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

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

Nothing recedes like success. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#like #nothing #recedes

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

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

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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