#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

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

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. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#being #function #precedes #recognition