Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

Charles Petzold

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation

Diane Sawyer

Memory diffuses fact.

Diane Sawyer

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Diane Lane

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

Diane Keaton

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary

Dennis Wilson

They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.

Denis Johnson

Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses. And the conviction descended on him that love like theirs couldn't possibly suffer any change.

Denis Diderot

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Edgar Allan Poe

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

Elizabeth Edwards

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Aharon Appelfeld

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Abdul Kalam

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

Yingluck Shinawatra

One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Chad Harbach

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

Chelsea Clinton

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

Billy Joel

Only the good die young.