Memory Quotes - page 3

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future. (Gustav Stresemann)
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. View quote
John Updike
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. View quote
John Updike
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. View quote
George Eliot
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. View quote
Truman Capote
The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. View quote
Cicero
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. View quote
Cicero
Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases. (Page 1) View quote
Cees Nooteboom
How vast a memory has Love. View quote
Alexander Pope
The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work. (Jonathan Ive)
Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (...) View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. View quote
Louis Armstrong
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. View quote
Steven Wright
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us and we must walk that road to the end. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! View quote
Frances Burney
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? View quote
Joan Didion
Memory is more indelible than ink. View quote
Anita Loos
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smellof smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. View quote
Tom Stoppard
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. View quote
Bob Woodward
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed How sweet their memory still But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. View quote
William Cowper
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. View quote
Isaac Asimov
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