Reminders Quotes - Page 8

• We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.

  Neil Strauss

  Machines, Matter, Now And Then

  Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.398, Canongate Books

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• For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten "toptypsical" meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite.

  Philip Kitcher

  Perspective, Important, Three

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• He nuzzled in at her neck kissing and licking her softly just below her ear. “Just a moment ” he said. “I need a small reminder that you are here you are whole and you are mine.

  Gail Carriger

  Kissing, Needs, Ears

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• Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.

  Stephen Karam

  New York, People, Lovely

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Fall, Night, Race

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Even as Ramadan holds profound meaning for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, it is also a reminder to people of all faiths of our common humanity and the commitment to justice, equality, and compassion shared by all great faiths. In that spirit, I wish Muslims across America and around the world a blessed month, and I look forward to again hosting an iftar dinner here at the White House. Ramadan Kareem.

  Barack Obama

  Blessed, Commitment, Compassion

  "President Obama’s Statement On Ramadan", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a reminder of what we can achieve when we lead with strength and with wisdom, with courage and resolve and patience. America can do and has done big things when we work together.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Iran, America

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Names, People, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 20, 2010

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• Pluto's warm-up is a reminder that no matter where you are climate happens. It always has, it always will - with or without SUVs. And it should remind us to continue taking with an ever-increasing grain of salt these claims that your car acts as a weather machine.

  Chris Horner

  Weather, Car, Climate

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• My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Unrequited Love, Irritation, Attachment

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• A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, Clever, Book

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter "On Publishing", 1977.

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• No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

  William Faulkner

  Mean, Men, Race

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Voice, Overcoming

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

  Dennis Lehane

  Long, Giving, World

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not perhaps — quite certainly: it will come.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Past, Years, Yesterday

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• It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

  Don DeLillo

  Epic, Cities, People

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mean, Simple, Tables

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.91, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature. I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego. And I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

  Brad Willis

  Mother, Thinking, Grace

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders to people that all the comforts that we take for granted can be taken away in just a moment.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  War, Taken, People

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen 'Never Stopped Being a Refugee'". Interview with Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2017.

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• A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

  George Alagiah

  Future, Japan, Earthquakes

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• Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.

  Steven Pinker

  Sex, Fear, Animal

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• A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

  Kate Simon

  Summer, Twilight, Sky

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• Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

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• Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light.

  John Green

  Light, Invisible, Visible Light

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.36, A&C Black

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• It's sort of like a reminder [click my teeth together] to remember it, but I don't think it works. I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.

  Rich Fulcher

  Memories, Thinking, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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