#receding

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. ↗

— George Ripley

#benefit #century #crowning #discover #glory

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#been #beginning #born #creation #deceased

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#criminals #ever #horizon #justice #over

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear. ↗

— Paul Harris

#cold #daybreak #dominating #emotion #fear

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#day #during #i #preceding #stay

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. ↗

— William Gibson

#city #clusters #complexity #computer #constellations

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. ↗

— Andre Gide

#each #joy #line #loyalty #makes

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#chins #costs #emotionally #eyes #feel

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#because #beyond #each #ever #further

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#both #canada #domestic #half #immediately