Residuum Quotes

#1. Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Albert J. Nock

#2. The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

Henry Adams

#3. The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

Henri Matisse

#4. The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.

Henry Parry Liddon

#5. But, nevertheless, it is anything but agreeable to be haunted by a suspicion that one's intellect is dwindling away, or exhaling, without your consciousness, like ether out of a phial; so that, at every glance, you find a smaller and less volatile residuum.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

Willa Cather

#8. Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

James A. Baldwin

#9. Evil. Why does your God allow it? He doesn't keep evil from happening: all he does is punish the evildoer with eternal flames. Why doesn't he prevent it? Do you have an answer?

Jaume Cabre

#10. Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

Ronald Reagan

#11. You... are not a very nice old man!!!

Jasmine Jones

#12. I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

Charles Kuralt

#13. He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand copies.

Ayn Rand

#14. The Women's Murder Club was assembled - but why?

James Patterson

#15. All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

Johann Gottfried Herder

#16. I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Marilyn Monroe

#17. And the moujiks? How do the moujiks die?

Leo Tolstoy

#18. I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that children are far more capable and aware of social complexities than we give them credit for.

Anthony Browne

#19. There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.

Patricia Schroeder

#20. And then like thunder broke the frost,
The chill wall fell, and morrowless
Immortal maid and man embraced,
Their light and shadow mingling.

Alison Croggon

#21. The ultimate objective of such modern mystery school rituals as the Babalon Working of Parsons, and the Alamantra Working of Crowley, was to produce the age of the Antichrist, also called the Aeon of Horus.

David Flynn