Gail Caldwell Quotes
Memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.Gail Caldwell
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Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
Salman Rushdie -
Men have not stacked the decks against women.
Warren Farrell -
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
Zhang Yimou -
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
Malcolm X -
In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
Wayne Grady
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry -
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Lactantius -
Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.
Malala Yousafzai -
Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.
Ramana Maharshi -
How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.
Rachel Nichols -
Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.
Edmund Morgan -
My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
Candace Camp -
We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
Hanoi Hannah -
Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
Edith Pearlman -
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
Dan Chaon -
We do not have the right to discriminate against people.
Gavin Newsom
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
Harriet Martineau -
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
Zhang Ziyi -
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler -
There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.
Sam Huntington -
It's right there along the coast. That's why it's extremely important that people heed and monitor the situation.
Craig Fugate -
Memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.
Gail Caldwell