Recalling Quotes

52 quotes by 49 authors

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. — Charles Dudley Warner
I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion… — Ayelet Waldman
Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen… — Jack Canfield
Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the… — Diana DeGette
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code… — Richard M. Weaver
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. — Indira Gandhi
Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget. — Hilton Als
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some… — John Cage
He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life. — Milan Kundera
Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. — Annie Dillard
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame… — Thomas Huxley
Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to… — Lauren Weisberger
Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes… — Ivan Turgenev
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the… — Gaston Bachelard
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches… — Euripides
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The question is, what are you going to do?" It turns out the question that's been eating away at me has only ever had one… — Suzanne Collins
How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who canâ€™t slow… — James Redfield
Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered… — Nicole Krauss
The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them.… — Augusten Burroughs

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