Quotes of: Memoir Keyword

But if I've learned anything about the world of grace, it's that failure is always a chance for a do-over.

All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

Known and Unknown: A Memoir

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

I just want you to know , I love serenity, and peace; no craziness, no weird people turning up in the middle of the night.

Relentless: The Memoir

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Memoirs of a Geisha

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

Memoirs of a Geisha

If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

Memoirs of a Geisha

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Memoirs of a Geisha

And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

Memoirs of a Geisha

It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

Memoirs of Hadrian

If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are!

Memoir and Remains of R.M. M'Cheyne