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To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent. -- George Crabbe
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
I was voted by my high school senior class as most likely to recede. -- Frank Welker
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles. -- Henry Mayhew
I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics. -- Elizabeth Warren
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. -- Eugen Herrigel
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. -- Robert Burton
I sold door to door for a couple years. As the years recede from the event, I remember less about it, which is probably good for my mind. It was home improvement in Cerritos California, Buena Park, that area. -- Andy Kindler
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable. -- Katherine Helmond
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. -- James Wolcott
I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there? -- Tina Fey
I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia. -- James Rosenquist
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event. -- Jerry Saltz
Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think. -- Joel Edgerton
To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain. -- Arthur Miller
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles -- Henry Mayhew
my dear,we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede. -- Sanober Khan
The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. -- William Butler Yeats
I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept from outside -- Bryan Mealer
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide! -- Emily Dickinson
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. -- Edward Gibbon
Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede. -- Samuel Beckett
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. -- Tacitus
... in time, the pain from a phisical beating would recede, heal, and scar, but wounds inflicted to the heart left scars that never stopped hurting -- Lorraine Heath
A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background. -- Sid Meier
It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward. -- Kevin Nealon
It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth. -- Thorstein Veblen
Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch. -- Lauren Oliver
It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good. -- Adolf Hitler
But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details. -- Francisco Goya
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
For you to access your own innermost as awareness is for you to surrender form after form after form, enabling you as awareness to recede to what you first are, for you to be meaning. -- John de Ruiter

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