Removed Quotes

• For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Sense
  • Image
  • Removed

• There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Discover
  • Reach
  • Hidden

• I hope that with this I have removed the misunderstanding.

  

  Carsten Juste
  • Hope
  • Removed
  • Misunderstanding

• A rusty bolt is the most difficult to withdraw; but once removed, though replaced, it will never hold securely.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Difficult
  • Removed
  • Replaced

• Look at the leader of my country, he is somebody I cannot relate to at all. He is so far removed from me - politically, personally and morally.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Country
  • Leader
  • Politically

• Once the well should be emptied of its water. All the mud should be removed. The water which then comes is the purest. Jnana is like this pure water. Once you burn away the thought of 'I' and 'mine', then non-attachment to the objects of the senses will result of its own accord.

  

  Bhagawan Nityananda
  • Result
  • Senses
  • Pure Water

• I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Slavery
  • Gentlemen
  • Violation

• I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • Flowers
  • Conclusion
  • Prayed

• We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Love
  • Vain
  • Removed

• Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Building
  • Worker
  • Removed

• After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Book
  • Course
  • Removed

• Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Secret
  • Extremes
  • Removed

• The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Song
  • Rocks
  • Removed

• As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

  

  Morarji Desai
  • Animal
  • Cruelty
  • Removed

• The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

  

  Erich Honecker
  • Wall
  • Reasons
  • Removed

• Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Work
  • Wondered
  • Removed

• I smile and start to count on my fingers: One, people are good. Two, every conflict can be removed. Three, every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple. Four, every situation can be substantially improved; even the sky is not the limit. Five, every person can reach a full life. Six, there is always a win-win solution. Shall I continue to count?

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Good
  • Smile
  • Solution

• I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.

  

  Emily M. Danforth
  • Trees
  • Shadows
  • Removed

• The Players Coalition is an NFL-funded subversion group, so that's why I removed myself from them.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Players
  • NFL
  • Coalition

• A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Missing
  • Joker
  • Outsider

• This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Dream
  • Kiss
  • Supposed

• Hair under the arms, for example, he said, should never be removed, for nature had put it there, and evidently it had some use. She had suddenly said, “You have too many children, Mr. Pollit.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Nature
  • Hair
  • Arms

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