Related Quotes
All quotes about:
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 appreciate literature
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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 green lord
Lord, keep my memory green. Charles Dickens
memories husband men
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
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.
independent would-be common
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
independent knowing ego
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego. Alan Watts
independent years interesting
I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting. Alan Moore
independent tvs modelling
I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like. Chloe Sevigny
independent helping addicted-to-you
The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you. Chogyam Trungpa
independent ideas risk
Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right. Chin-Ning Chu
independent exercise creative
Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion–and those who will follow them. And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special. Because everyone is. David McCullough
independent needs aliens
So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent. David Guetta
independent fate men
Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates. C. Wright Mills
littles wealth rich
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
littles want wealth
Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
littles revolution events
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
littles facts sometimes
Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.
littles too-much violence
In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.
littles cry you-again
-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
littles wake-up poor
If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...
littles
I have so very much. I have so very little.
littles energy should
The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it. Alan Jackson