We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
I absolutely do not think that I have even a vague recollection of what normal life is like. — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
“Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers,… — Jeffrey Panzer Copy Share Image
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
“The recollection also came back empty, and for the first time in all his life, perhaps, Luzhin asked himself the question –… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I find it so AMUSING to go through my old facebook messages. It brings back memories with my best friends when we… — Daniel Neuhaus Copy Share Image
How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our… — Claire North Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
During the PRIDE era, I have no recollection of anyone getting hurt badly from stomps or soccer kicks. — Mauricio Rua Copy Share Image
“I have no recollection of writing the play of Peter Pan, now being published for the first time so long after he… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow. — John Strachan Copy Share Image
There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own… — Wilson Flagg Copy Share Image
Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs-- A fading land to which is… — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem. — Horace Copy Share Image
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