Fading Quotations

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

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!

Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend.

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

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.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

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.

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.

Obama seems to inspire a bizarre personal loyalty among his advocates, particularly among young people who should by all rights be concerned with their fading futures and collapsing prospects.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

Personally, I think that stuff is all fading out but we wanted to definitely distance ourselves from that and there is no Rapping going on here.

Some companies do in fact retain their gains while others fail and fade like a fading rocket.

Now that the worst lawsuits are fading it seems a golden opportunity to do that. Kraft is limping.

With Michigan State, it was seven minutes to go in the game and we fade away. The other night (against Minnesota) with 2 1/2 minutes to go we were winning, then we faded away. So, the time that we are fading away is getting (smaller). We're making progress.

I looked up and (Glen) was kind of fading away. So I just tried to put it in a good spot and he finished it. I don't know if he meant to, but he finished it.

My shot wasn't falling. I was just fading away too much.

Looking ahead, rising gas and electricity bills could keep inflation close to current levels for the next few months. But we expect further falls in core inflation and fading energy effects to push the headline rate well below target in the second half of the year.

Star gazing is a connection to humanity's earliest curiosity about our place in the universe. It is practically impossible to see the stars from most cities, but now, clear night vistas in our national parks are an important resource that is literally fading from sight.

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.

Related authorities should run against time to establish mechanisms on resources development compensation and the assistance for fading local industries,

I think we showed what superior athletes we are. We weathered their storm and that's all they had. You could see them fading in the fourth quarter.

I was fading so I don't really have any complaints with the way that he raced me. I passed him two or three times earlier in the day and found another line and worked my way around the outside of him. I was a little surprised that he continually drove it in and kept trying to blast me in the center. I think he probably hit me for four or five laps and the time that he got by me, he really had my wheels off the ground and I couldn't get in the gas and he got inside of me and from there drove on and drove away from me. This is short track racing.

We have now been able to track star formation in galaxies out to modest distances, more than half the age of the universe, and we find that all galaxies, big or small, seem to be fading gradually so that they are less active today than they were further back in time.

Who knows, in 100,000 years the emerging Grand Nebula in Cassiopeia may replace the fading Orion Nebula as a favorite object for amateur astronomers. In the meantime, I think it will be a favorite target for professional astronomers trying to solve the riddle of massive star formation.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

We are confident of advancing, but in this period of the season the physical condition is fading and surprise results can't be excluded.

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

We are going to see a slow fading away of some of the funds in the bottom half of the performance rankings.

Duke was masterful. That's what beat us. It looked like Duke was fading some, we had some action, but we couldn't get that big hit.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

The tide turned in the sixth round. I could see Morales was fading from the body punches. Manny's right hook was beautiful. We still have to work on Manny's defense a bit.

The woods were wild at nightfall. She heard dim crashing and splashes and the bark of a dog, and through the gaps in the trees was a mottled sky of fading pink and grey discs, microbes moving toward the west. She had almost gotten away but not in time and now leaving wouldn't save her. She lay down on the deck with the woods all around her.

We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist violations. When they hit us, we will respond with an earthquake-like reaction.

A dark-colored home absorbs as much as 90 percent of the solar radiation that strikes it, and even white walls can absorb solar radiation. By reflecting this infrared radiation rather than absorbing it, the Cool Wall coatings dramatically reduce the load on a home's air-conditioning system. And because they are reflective, they are less prone to fading even dark colors stay darker longer than conventional paint technologies.

The things we used to have/ Are fading all too fast, ... Like a castle in the sand/ Well some things they're meant to last.

Fare hikes won't compensate for fading discipline. Absent that discipline, the airline fairy tale could end abruptly and badly.

Your lives are fading in the shadows of time, but your legacy lives on,

Ask me no more where Jove bestows, / When June is past, the fading rose; / For in your beauty's orient deep / These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land.

The fading out isn't good news for the pro-universal preschool side.

Inventories of both crude and the products are overwhelming the market. Geopolitical concerns have supported prices but they seem to be fading into the background.

Hey you, out there in the coldGetting lonely, getting old Can you feel me?Hey you, standing in the aislesWith itchy feet and fading smiles Can you feel me?Hey you, dont help them to bury the lightDon't give in without a fight.

I don't really have any complaints with how he (Stewart) raced me. The time he got me, it was just short-track racing. There was really hard racing out there, but I had a fading car, and I don't have any hard feelings.

It lets us combat signal fading for both line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight links, even over difficult terrain.

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

You want to talk about the fading of an icon? You never said I was an icon in the first place. But you want to talk about it in a derogatory fashion. You say the superstar has fallen. But you've never called me a superstar ever. It's only that you use these words when you want to say something derogatory.

The inflation threat clearly seems to be fading as the economy cools, ... signal that the Fed may now shift its emphasis to growing the economy rather than fighting inflation. It allows them to start thinking about a rate cut sooner rather than later.

The images that have been given about human cloning are images of fading copies or armies of clones or defects of animals. That's all we have shown the public.

The housing market is fading fast and the prospect is it will weaken further as rates move higher.

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

his eyes took in the barren slopes and the scattered boulders and the lonley gray road windingits way into the fading hills,and i could feel him thinking to himself this is no place to die

Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

The market is concerned with the housing numbers. There seems to be a trend setting in. Housing and the consumer have been the engines of the economy and if that's slowing or fading quickly, there are going to be ramifications for the market.

The Medicare moment of truth is drawing near. The hype is already fading as more and more seniors experience the pain of the donut hole and incomplete coverage -- a problem that will only get worse between now and the end of the year.

The days of sitting at a little desk writing an essay in pencil are fading away.

Justice is a fading light.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.

Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

Deceiving world, that with alluring toysHast made my life the subject of thy scorn,And scornest now to lend thy fading joys,T'outlength my life, whom friends have left forlorn;How well are they that die ere they be born,And never see thy sleights, which few men shunTill unawares they helpless are undone!

O fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted, / Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

When they reached the end of the room he stopped, and muttered some words she could not understand. She opened her eyes, and saw the wall slowly fading away like a mist, and a great black cavern in front of her. A bitter cold wind swept round them, and she felt something pulling at her dress. "Quick, quick," cried the Ghost, "or it will be too late," and, in a moment, the wainscoting had closed behind them, and the Tapestry Chamber was empty.

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.