Recalls Quotes

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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's… — Louis Aragon
A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy… — Henry James
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon. — Thomas Hartwell Horne
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of… — Charles Orville Whitley
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels. — Georg Trakl
An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors:… — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochodaâ€™s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and… — Dennis Lehane
In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is… — Auguste Rodin
I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory. — Mos Def
When I left the theaterâ€¦ I was thinking that Iâ€™d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of… — Arlene Croce
"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I… — Anton Chekhov
The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house… — Sarah Vowell
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no… — Gerhard Richter
Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth. — George Horne
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood,… — Samuel Woodworth
The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original… — Vincent Canby
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes… — Paracelsus

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