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memories book writing
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
memories mind firsts
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
memories book reader
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
memories teaching should-have
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.
memories dictator amnesia
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Charles Stross
memories liberty might
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
memories heart passion
Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control! Charles Spurgeon
memories past reality
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. Alan Watts
memories dark childhood
Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten. Alan Moore
feet sin crosses
I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.
feet clothes shoes
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot. Alan Bennett
feet people challenges
People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary. Ed Begley, Jr.
feet chinese advertising-business
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. Dean Acheson
feet bird tree
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs. Audre Lorde
feet foe
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. William Shakespeare
feet size swimmer
I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet. Cat Deeley
feet
Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow. C. S. Lewis
feet lost trying
We were trying to get on our feet before we lost it. Don Walchuk
shrinking world growing
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing. Dean Kamen
shrinking moments grotesque
After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque. Mason Cooley
shrinking
he's not going to be a pushover or a shrinking violet. Richard Garnett
shrinking strange no-fear
I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me. Edith Cavell