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
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“l have no recollection of just when, or more important, why l set about telling the story of the Siege. l suppose… — Valerie Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation… — George Washington 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
Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which… — Alistair Begg 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
“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
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“[...]and yet wasn't there something about [vampires] that struck a deep chord of recognition, even of memory? The teeth, the blood, the… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that,… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You, who are so observant, will no doubt concede the generalization that people divide into two large classes, those who live mainly… — Soren Kierkegaard 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
Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away… — Madeleine Delbrel 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
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home… — Tennessee Williams 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
By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“If you could refresh my recollection on that matter I might be able to recall what you want me to recall, but… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of… — C. M. Mayo 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
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
I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person… — Louis Kronenberger 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
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 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
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image