Top 33 Quotes About Retrograde
#1. The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
David Ricardo
#2. I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.
Alanis Morissette
#3. I sighed. "Mercury must be in retrograde. Everybody's touchy and having it out with someone. I'm trying to remain neutral. I feel like Switzerland.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#4. The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.
June Jordan
#5. There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
Cornel West
#6. While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.
Thomas Jefferson
#7. The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
Todd Gitlin
#8. All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
#9. When people accuse us of being retrograde, or medieval, or puritanical - all words rummaged out of the box labeled "Not Progressive" - we should shrug, as if they had accused us of walking on two feet, and
Anthony Esolen
#10. In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun ... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.
Edmond Halley
#11. The use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time. It invades all classes, destroys social life, and is turning, in the words of Mantegazza, the whole of Europe into a cigar divan.
Charles R. Drysdale
#12. Never far removed from the progressive consciousness was a question that was never easily answered: of what value was it to punish offending Democrats, if one merely replaced them with infinitely more retrograde Republicans?
David Pietrusza
#13. One principal reason is that the histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher classes. We have but few accounts that can be depended upon of the manners and customs of that part of mankind where these retrograde and progressive movements chiefly take place.
Thomas Robert Malthus
#14. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
Winston Churchill
#15. 'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
David Chase
#16. Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
Soren Kierkegaard
#17. There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#18. Things become clear when there is no escape.
Pema Chodron
#19. It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.
Peter Andre
#20. I just want to make sure that he treats you right! I can't let my little girl get hurt!"
" ... I can't even tell if you're joking or not.
August Westman
#22. If all else perish, there will remain8 a story-teller's world from Singapore to the Marquesas that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of veranda and prahu which we enter, as we do that of Conan Doyle's Baker Street, with a sense of happy and eternal homecoming.
Selina Shirley Hastings
#24. To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb
Jimmy Carter
#25. One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#26. Her gaze did not leave her burning groom, nor did her mind abandon the fact that he was not consumed by the flames.
Elizabeth Sterling
#29. There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
Bette Davis
#30. We were using ether and oxygen as anaesthetic and she was particularly adept at holding her breath while the mask was on her face then returning suddenly to violent life when we thought she was asleep. We were both sweating when she finally went under.
James Herriot
#32. Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler
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