Memory Quote by John Morley Download Open image “The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget” — John Morley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory Politicians Politics
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. — James Carroll Copy Share Image
I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. — Melvin Laird Copy Share Image
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought. — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
Only a few will be remembered for the things they say, but many are remember for the things they have done. — Trent Thomas Copy Share Image
Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them. — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. — John Morley Copy Share Image
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter… — John Morley Copy Share Image
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from… — John Morley Copy Share Image
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. — John Morley Copy Share Image
“It is worth while to take the pains to find out the best way of doing a given task,.....'to scorn delight and live laborious… — John Morley Copy Share Image
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to… — John Morley Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
