Quotes & Sayings About Memory From The Giver

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions. — Thomas Nagel

It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected. — Carly Simon

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. — Idries Shah

I know it's a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring. — Alex Berenson

We should neither try to demolish technology nor run away from it. We can restrain it and must redeem it. - ALBERT BORGMANN — Anonymous

Life can seem awful and unfixable until the universe shifts a little and the observation point is altered, and then suddenly, everything seems more bearable. — Jasmine Warga

Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit? — Dada Vaswani

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves. — Wynn Bullock

And as she flew away she shouted to the masses down below, JUST BE YOURSELF, that's unusual enough, and you will steal the show!" -Penelope, the Grumpy Pony — Angela DeVere Taylor

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash

Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all. — Georg Feuerstein

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself - you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there. — Thomas Hughes

I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die. — John Green