Quotes of: Reminders Keyword

I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

He reminded me of all the questions I asked God years ago when God was too busy to answer. "Try asking God. I think it helps especially if you have problems talking to adults.

Battered

The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redo...

Liya Kebede

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the move to New York to her. She reminded me I've always wanted to do move to New York for theater and said, 'Let's stop talking about it and do ...

Josh Cooke

God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.

300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

Arcadia

I always thought of grief as a blow that took everything out of you. And it is like that. But it stays, past that first hard hit. It stays and blows its breath into you. It's always there, reminding you of what you've lost. What's gone.

Heartbeat

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

Harp In The South

She's thirty-four years old. In fifty, sixty years, she'll be dead, and everything reminds her of this fact but him. With Arnie, she imagines she might live forever.

The Heaven of Animals: Stories

The leaves are orange, her hair is orange, and my mood is blue. That reminds me, I really do need to make some more coffee.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

I drink coffee with a spoon, and I eat soup with a straw. The clang of metal on an empty mug wakes me up to the moment and reminds me to love.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

I Am David

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tlaquepaque, or Irkutsk, or Pyongyang. Or, you know, Pittsburgh. Sometimes I flip through the atlas just to remind myself of all the names that would be worse than mine.

Save the Date

I took a deep breath and slowly blew it out. He won't hurt me, I silently reminded myself. 'Never,' Archer said, shaking his head. 'I'll never hurt you again, Skye.

Sins of the Father

But in the end they were not called saints because of the way they died, or because of their visions or wondrous deeds, but because of their extraordinary capacity for love and goodness, which reminded others of the love of God.

The Saints' Guide to Happiness

The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

Submission, Faith & Beauty: The Religion of Islam

Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

Monster High

Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History