Top 237 Traces Quotes & Sayings

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.

I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks. He wonders if she has buried any traces of herself under her floorboards. He wonders what those traces would be if she had. And he wonders again why he thinks about her so much when he knows so little to think about.

What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.

Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.

If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which covers the infancy of the globe, the traces of those revolutions which took place anterior to the existence of all nations.

I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was really the attraction of it.

But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a major outbreak.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.

Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

Too many of our laws were written during a time of open racism and discrimination, and they still bear the traces of inequity.