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Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. -- Will Durant
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. -- Sara Paretsky
Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding. -- Lindsey Graham
Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter. -- Matthew Ashford
Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them. -- Chief Seattle
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be. -- Caitlin Moran
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
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
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations. -- Bruce Feiler
Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system. -- Richard Lamm
Enough is ever-receding. -- Mason Cooley
God is an ever receding pocket ofï»¿ scientific ignorance. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it. -- William Greenough Thayer Shedd
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'? -- Robin Morgan
If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past. -- Jane Jacobs
There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave. -- William Butler Yeats
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. -- David Foster Wallace
Life is beautiful. Like a beautiful blue wave, it ebbs and flows, sometimes gushing forth and sometimes receding quietly. -- Pooja Ruprell
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller asï»¿ time moves on. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Donald Trump has filed so many bankruptcies and busted so many companies that his children now have receding heir lines. -- Michael R. Burch
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past. -- Ben Lerner
I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists? -- John Baldessari
I could feel my attachment to the scene receding as I began to realize that everything was perfect and going according to plan in the greater tapestry. -- Anita Moorjani
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. -- Naomi Wolf
The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes -- Agona Apell
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating. -- Terence McKenna
I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new. -- Lord Byron
I met a man with no forehead and receding eyebrows. He had ketchup crusted on his eyelids. I can't remember what we talked about, I just remember him smelling like chicken feed. -- Jarod Kintz
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole! -- Steve Toltz

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