#remain

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ↗

— Leonard Woolf

#barbarian #civilized #civilized man #effort #man

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. ↗

— Toby Young

#become #befall #disaster #exactly #failure

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#happy #happy marriage #remains #secret

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#environment #meet #objective #remains #track

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray! ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#another #color #course #doing #eliminated

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. ↗

— Andre Gide

#annoys #artificial #bores #constructs #eludes

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absurd #admirable #agreed #barack #barack obama

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life. ↗

— Stijn Streuvels

#chimneys #close #fast #gave #ground

Age merely shows what children we remain. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #merely #remain #shows

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#dangerous #dangers #fishermen #found #know