We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When I started going to church, my first memories are of the minister getting up and accusing us of being full of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch,"… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“That is the problem with repressed memory and dissociative identity disorder. Your mind represses certain traumas for reasons of pure survival. And… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career.… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
I was about 10 years old. I just remember the film Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people… — Kathryn Tucker Windham Copy Share Image
Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Ones upon a time I gave you my heart..Now it's in pieces and you're no longer around. I know you dont deserve… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there,… — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
When you travel, you can see lots of great buildings and monuments and stuff, but the best part of traveling is meeting… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image