Quotes with recall

  • We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

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  • Elizabeth Jennings At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • A. E. van Vogt I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Albert Speer I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Arianna Huffington I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Paul Harvey In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
    Paul Harvey
    American radio broadcaster (1918 - 2009)
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  • Leigh Hunt It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Camille Paglia Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Newton So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
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  • Benjamin Franklin That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Klem The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Carolyn Wells The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • A. J. Liebling The subject permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation - both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents - and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Bart Chilton The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
    Bart Chilton
    American civil servant, consultant and author (1960 - 2019)
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  • Alighieri Dante There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Jim Morrison They claim everyone was born, but I don't recall it. Maybe I was having one of my blackouts.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Federico Garcia Lorca To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
    Federico Garcia Lorca
    Spanish poet and playwright (1898 - 1936)
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  • Francis H. Bradley True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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