- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fading Quotes
What lingers, and what lets go.
These fading quotes weigh brief brilliance against slow decline, including a memorable preference for being a shooting star rather than a fading one. See our Beauty quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
- Excluding
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a few days with the iPhone X, I can begin to make out its themes. It's a step towards fading the actual physical manifestation of technology into a mist where it's just there - a phone that's 'all screen,' one that turns on simply by seeing you, one that removes the mechanics of buttons and charging cables.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I've worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that.
- Fade
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said that I won't be a Barcelona player for 20 years with a secondary role. The moment that I feel my ambition is fading or that I am not able to deliver physically, I will step aside and leave feeling privileged and content of what I gave to the club.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
- I Have Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020