Quotes by Memories To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice. Alfred Nobel sister cheer memories What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. Alfred North Whitehead vivid anticipation memories If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion. Alfred Noyes memories father reality Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful, I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter... the bond is there in my mind and memory; Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space. Alfred Worden beautiful memories fall No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory. Algernon Blackwood yield wall memories On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies. Algernon Charles Swinburne eye men memories Liars need to have good memories. Algernon Sidney liars memories needs Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you. Ali Banisadr dream i-like-you memories I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works. It's take a little from here, take a little from there. Alia Shawkat jobs memories people The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure. Alice McDermott echoes gone memories Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. Alice Meynell strong memories travel Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal. Alice Morse Earle time memories believe Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. Alice Munro different memories people Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. Alice Munro anecdotes writing memories And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be. Alice Sebold were-meant-to-be my-sister memories What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were? Alice Steinbach who-we-are purpose memories The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase. Alice Thomas Ellis giving memories book What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain? Alice Tisdale Hobart ifs memories The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory Alice Walker life-is memories way My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker. Alice Walker virginia grandmother memories «678910111213141516»