Memorable Quotes - Page 33

I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.

More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.

I think dates considered super corny and cheesy - whether it's going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other - those always make the most memorable dates!

Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.

Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

Cursed be he that moves my bones.

Small to greater matters must give way.

From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

Although the last, not least.

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.