Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Wagner

Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.

Charles Dudley Warner

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Charles de Lint

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.

Charles de Lint

I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.

Charles de Lint

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

P. J. Harvey

The one thing we preach is mental toughness and we showed it tonight.

Orlando Bloom

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

Roberto Torres

Where is your mental GPS taking you today? Is that where you want to go?

A man should be what he seems.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

There's daggers in men's smiles.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

Rig Veda

The person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Baltasar Gracian

Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

Che Guevara

Words without deeds are worthless.

Blaise Pascal

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Edwin Arnold

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.