Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Charles Caleb Colton

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Charles Caleb Colton

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

Charles Dickens

Lord, keep my memory green.

Charles Dickens

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

Charles Stross

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

Charles Stross

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

Gerard Hopkins

Where no storms come, / Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, / And out of the swing of the sea.

Ann Jones

We want people to keep everything green and clean.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green.

Bob Hope

For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green

Bjorn Lomborg

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

John Beilein

(At) Canisius and at Richmond, we had shooting centers, but we never had anything like this. He may take some shots that look crazy, but he's got a green light.

Bill Conine

All our vehicles are white with a green logo. They're pretty recognizable.

Bruce Steinberg

They've already been working together. Summers sits in on the meetings Rubin has with Greenspan much of the time.

Charles Spurgeon

Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more.

Denis Leary

I'm the Lord of the Dance! F-k Michael Flatley, it's me!

C. S. Lewis

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Granth Sahib

There is none other than the lord at all

Diana Gabaldon

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

Charles Wesley

And all things as they change proclaim The Lord eternally the same.

Ezra Taft Benson

With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability.

Mike Mansfield

As long as the Lord will let me.