Quotes 161 till 180 of 223.
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The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
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The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 333 -
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
Het boek van wonderlijke nieuwe dingen (2014) -
The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.
Tomcat in Love (2011) 4 -
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
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They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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