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"A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day." »Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out." »Jane Austen
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"I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from 'Thank God it's Friday' to 'Thank God it's Monday.' If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent." »Ann Diehl
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"We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country." »Paul Weyrich
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"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age." »George Burns
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"I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again." »Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
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"memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing." »Thomas Fuller
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"memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields." »Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
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"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted." »James Branch Cabell
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"There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third." »Timothy Leary
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"The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind." »Plato
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"If you're trying to remember a happy memory, don't think back to a time when you were ALSO thinking of a happy memory, because man, how long does this go on" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?" »Martin Tupper
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"The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory." »Truman Capote
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"Politics didn't lead me to working people. working people led me into politics." »Barack Obama
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"Walk, walk, the path that I cant stop, working as hard, working as hard, paths I have to walk on." »Hiba Guddusi
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"Courage is saying, Maybe what I'm doing isn't working maybe I should try something else." »Anna Lappe
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"I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy." »Danny McGoorty
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""I'm working on my second million . . . I gave up on my first."" »Tom Zegan
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"Determined people working together can do anything." »Jim Casey, Founder of UPS
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"All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Seven
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""I love my kids to death . . . so far it's not working."" »Tom Zegan
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"working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment." »Alfred Gingold
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man." »Benjamin Franklin
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." »Will Rogers
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"The palest ink is better than the best memory." »Chinese Proverb
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"“We only have now! Everything else is either imagination or memory."" »Steve Maraboli
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