Memory Quotes

3512 quotes by 2234 authors

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists. — Peter McWilliams
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. — Derek Walcott
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as… — Russell Kirk
An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful,… — Timothy Foote
Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. — Samuel Reshevsky
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its… — William Peter Blatty
And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over… — Alberto Manguel
Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory… — Robert Doisneau
Before it incarnates, each soul enters into a sacred contract with the Universe to accomplish certain things. It enters into this commitment in the fullness… — Gary Zukav
Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that state — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This… — Pope Benedict XVI
Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers. — Christian Dior
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And… — Khalil Gibran
Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory. — Nelson Mandela
I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. — Bruce Lee
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly done;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction.… — George Steiner
The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their… — Chris Hedges

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