#trace

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#cheerfulness #discontent #failure #i #indeed

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#apprehension #before #days #evident #few

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ↗

— Plato

#man #memory #mix #ought #pursued

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#between #correlation #obesity #policies #poverty

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#brute #curiosity #examining #food #habit

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ↗

— Rene Char

#leave #must #passage #poet #proof

Trace asked Jackson, “Why the hell are you even here?” Jackson looked far too uneasy for Trace’s peace of mind. “I know you didn’t want me here. I got the message loud and clear when you cut the call. Thing is, your little lady was damned insistent that I do something.” “Like get stunned and tied up?” “You try planning with a hellcat breathing fire in your ear, making demands, prodding you-“ “Priss?” “She’s a terror. That name doesn’t suit her at all. ↗

— Lori Foster

#trace #men

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#credit #exclusively #human #i #i see

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#great #had #haven #i #influences

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts. ↗

— William Jackson

#close #close friend #comics #copy #covers