The Yangtse never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.
We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai
I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.
There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
Xavier had thought he was in paradise before. He’d been wrong. Sophia was more than paradise. She was the very reason he breathed.
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
Our only hope lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism
There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.
