Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Collins

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Tariq Ramadan

The question about the Salafi is an important question as I say in Arab Awakening, and have often repeated since. I am really underlining the importance of this, because we really don't have very good memories. Remember - the Taliban in Afghanistan were not at all politicised in the beginning. They were just on about education. And then they were pushed by the Saudi and the Americans to be against the Russian colonisation, and as a result they came to be politicised.

Sophocles

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Steve Toltz

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

Steve Toltz

… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.

Steve Toltz

Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized?

Steve Toltz

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Stephen Levine

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

Stephen King

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Stephen King

Time's the thief of memory

Stephen King

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Stephen King

The color white is the absence of memory.

Stephen King

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

Stephen King

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

Stephen King

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

Stephen King

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

Stephen King

The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.

Stephen King

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

Stephen King

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

Stephen King

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

Sophie Swetchine

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

Tea Obreht

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

Taylor Swift

In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red.

Stanley Kunitz

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

Soren Kierkegaard

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

Stephen Tobolowsky

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Stephen Vizinczey

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Stephen Vincent Benet

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

Stephenie Meyer

How did anyone survive this world, with these bodies whose memories wouldn't stay in the past where they should? With the emotions that were so strond I couldn't tell what I felt anymore?

Rick Riordan

Since Percy’d lost his memory,his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like ____________________, and if the monsters caught him, he’d be____________________.

Taylor Caldwell

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Taylor Caldwell

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Tana French

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind