Recalled Quotes

81 quotes by 73 authors

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly… — Elizabeth Taylor
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I… — John Ruskin
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him… — William Makepeace Thackeray
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking… — Milan Kundera
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept… — Jodi Picoult
It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most… — Dan Chaon
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So… — Cormac McCarthy
As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a… — Wangari Maathai
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -… — Charlotte Bronte
But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite. — Richelle Mead
When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there.… — Kurt Vonnegut
When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they… — Lauren Groff
To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word… — Stephen R. Lawhead
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and… — Soren Kierkegaard
I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the scent… — Maggie Stiefvater
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud… — Anthony Trollope
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She couldnâ€™t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way heâ€™d seemed to glide through the sand the first time sheâ€™d… — Nicholas Sparks
Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling… — Mark Z. Danielewski
To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time.… — David Mazzucchelli

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