Remembered Quotes - Page 13

• Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

  Bob Woodward

  Achievement, President, Literature

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• Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Memories, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• [You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Clever, Writing

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• A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

  Josh Billings

  Fool

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• Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Warrior, Greatness, Earthquakes

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• Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

  Frances Wright

  Men, Noise, Fame

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• Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Joy, Woe, Bitter

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• Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

  George Canning

  Party, Exercise, Practice

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.533

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• It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Class, Community

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.79, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won't lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.

  Barry Goldwater

  Sleep, Men, Judging

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• The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Daughter, Children, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1054, Delphi Classics

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• Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.

  Judith Martin

  Unique, Knowing, Tragedy

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

  Rachel Carson

  Song, Joy, Quality

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

  Marsha Norman

  Art, Generations, Culture

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• To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

  Horace Mann

  Past, Lakes, Law

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• If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.

  Walter Payton

  Nfl, Want, Winner

  Walter Payton (2001). “Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton”, Random House Incorporated

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• O happy, happy morning! O dear, familiar place! / O warm, sweet tears of Heaven, fast falling on my face! / O well-remembered, rainy wind, blow all my care away, / That I may be a child again this blissful morn of May.

  Celia Thaxter

  Sweet, Morning, Children

  Celia Thaxter (1874). “Poems”, p.126

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• the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

  Margaret Millar

  Spring, Smell, Rooms

  Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.33, Soho Press

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• Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished--their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal? Live for something.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Moving, Men, Light

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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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