Remembered Quotes - Page 7

• The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

  William Mountford

  Death, Home, Age

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.76

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• The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

  Pico Iyer

  Love, Compassion, Going Away

  Pico Iyer (2006). “The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto”, p.336, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Important, Favors, Trifling

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• Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

  Andre Gide

  Block

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• It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.

  Barbara Deming

  Movie, Dream, Book

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.

  James Longstreet

  Struggle, Passion, Sleep

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• My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

  Gene Tierney

  Parent, Littles, Arguing

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

  Candace Wheeler

  Grief, Loss, Land

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Realistically I know I'm an entertainer. When you're exciting, you're remembered.

  Johny Hendricks

  Exciting, Entertainers, Knows

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• I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

  Hugh Hefner

  Thinking, Impact, Secure

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived

  Karen Maitland

  Memories, Goes On, Wanted

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• Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mind, Bags, Kind

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• Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Good Man

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.319

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• We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Fall, Errors

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.27

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• I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.

  Rob Brown

  Care, Responsible, Humans

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• The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

  Kanye West

  Pride, Giving, Humanity

  "Kanye West Talks Hope for Humanity's Future" by Daniel D'addario, Francesca Trianni, time.com. April 16, 2015.

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• We only live once, and how would you want to be remembered? I have kids. I have, due to my job, a probably higher responsibility to do good things in my life. But also, since I was a kid, I love doing things out of context, helping friends, being different, being a special kind of man is important for me.

  Gilles Marini

  Jobs, Kids, Responsibility

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• How you play, is how you'll be remembered. Go Hard, follow your heart or be forgotten.

  Keshia Chante

  Heart, Play, Forgotten

  Interview with Entertainment Tonight, 2009.

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• About Mahatma Gandhi: Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he made on behalf of his country. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest men the world has ever seen. The world hath need of him, and if he is mocked and jeered at by "the people of importance," "the people with a stake in this country," - the Scribes and Pharisees of the days of Christ - he will be gratefully remembered, now and always, by a nation which he led from victory to victory.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Country, Men, People

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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• At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Education, Teacher, Encouragement

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• Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in the empire. A motive of superstition prevented the execution of the design which Julian had frequently meditated, of relieving his head from the weight of a costly diadem; but he absolutely refused the title of Dominus or Lord, a word which was grown so familiar to the ears of the Romans, that they no longer remembered its servile and humiliating origin.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, History, Design

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.648, Modern Library

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• A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the representation of ancient freedom, if they had not long since been accustomed to prefer the solid assurance of bread to the unsubstantial visions of liberty and greatness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Pride, Greatness, Long

  Edward Gibbon (1820). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.165

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• Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Generosity, Problem

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• Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  War, Strain

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• Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Believe, Men, Hands

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.83, UNM Press

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