“A remnant of uneasy light.”
The Matron of Jedborough.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“I am that shadow on the threshold
defending my remnant peace.”
Poem without a Hero (1963)
Context: Dread. Bottomless dread...
I am that shadow on the threshold
defending my remnant peace.
“A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.”
Orot Hatchiah 14.
Orot
“In any given society the Remnant are always so largely an unknown quantity.”
Source: Isaiah's Job (1936), IV
Context: In any given society the Remnant are always so largely an unknown quantity. You do not know, and will never know, more than two things about them. You can be sure of those — dead sure, as our phrase is — but you will never be able to make even a respectable guess at anything else. You do not know, and will never know, who the Remnant are, nor what they are doing or will do. Two things you do know, and no more: First, that they exist; second, that they will find you. Except for these two certainties, working for the Remnant means working in impenetrable darkness; and this, I should say, is just the condition calculated most effectively to pique the interest of any prophet who is properly gifted with the imagination, insight and intellectual curiosity necessary to a successful pursuit of his trade.
“I was in Africa
Before the building of Rome.
I came here
To the remnant of Troy.”
The Tale of Taleisin
“If your descent is from heroic sires,
Show in your life a remnant of their fires.”
Si vous êtes sorti de ces héros fameux,
Montrez-nous cette ardeur qu'on vit briller en eux.
Satire 5, l. 43
Satires (1716)
“You do not know, and will never know, who the Remnant are, nor what they are doing or will do.”
Source: Isaiah's Job (1936), IV
Context: In any given society the Remnant are always so largely an unknown quantity. You do not know, and will never know, more than two things about them. You can be sure of those — dead sure, as our phrase is — but you will never be able to make even a respectable guess at anything else. You do not know, and will never know, who the Remnant are, nor what they are doing or will do. Two things you do know, and no more: First, that they exist; second, that they will find you. Except for these two certainties, working for the Remnant means working in impenetrable darkness; and this, I should say, is just the condition calculated most effectively to pique the interest of any prophet who is properly gifted with the imagination, insight and intellectual curiosity necessary to a successful pursuit of his trade.
“Why aren't we letting ISIS go and fight Assad and then we pick up the remnants?”
Interview in 60 Minutes http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-60-minutes-scott-pelley/, 2015-09-27
Cited by Mitt Romney in Business Insider http://uk.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-donald-trump-isis-60-minutes-ridiculous-2016-3?r=US&IR=T, 2016-03-03
2010s, 2015
III, 4
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III