#remains

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#ajar #all day #cat #day #door

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#affect #archaic #bill #bill of rights #bits

The West remains obsessed by the caste system. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#obsessed #remains #system #west

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#abstract thought #exhausted #nothing #politics #remains

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#him #how #i #little #man

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#ancient #care #cherish #earth #foster

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #constantly #deals #fact #faith

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#between #competition #con #everyone #good

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can. ↗

— George Crook

#destroyed #driven #fight #game #left

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#however #impossible #improbable #maxim #mine