Reminding Quotes - Page 5

• In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.

  Michelle Malkin

  Doors, Tourism, Needs

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• We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.

  Nina Turner

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.

  David Shi

  Simple, Would Be, Purpose

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• Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Play, People

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God’s way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.

  Jonathan Hull

  Monday, Tired, Fate

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• Reminding myself of all that I have to be thankful for really helps ground me and keeps me from tipping over into that negative place.

  Nikki DeLoach

  Being Thankful, Negative, Tipping

  "Interview with Nikki Deloach, actress in the hit show Awkward". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes.

  El-P

  Thinking, Things Change, Grew Up

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

  Thomas Sowell

  Lunch, People, Economics

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.56, Hoover Press

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• I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Teaching, Stories, Students

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• You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing Grace" without reminding yourself that the reason God's grace is amazing is it saves a wretch like you. This self-denigration stuff - Jesus died for my sins - is nothing but a guilt message. That's the thing we've got to get out from under. That's not Christianity. That's sort of fourth-century Christianity that got turned into doctrines and dogmas that we've never been able to escape.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Self, Grace

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.

  George Saunders

  Nice, Thinking, Desire

  "Conversation: George Saunders, Author of ‘Tenth of December’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. January 18, 2013.

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• Reagan thought that school prayer was important because it was crucial to begin each day reminding students that their inalienable rights came to them from their Creator and not from government bureaucrats.

  Paul Kengor

  Prayer, School, Rights

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• There's no real manual on being a parent. There's no real manual on being a wife. I keep reminding myself, My mother did all this, only she never got to leave the house. OK, I can do this. We're all learning on our own learning curve.

  Kelly Ripa

  Mother, Real, Curves

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Together, Events, Way

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.77, Modern Library

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• Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Teacher, Real

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Congregational singing is a holy act, and as I organize my thoughts, I hear my old pastor, Alistair Begg, reminding me that in our song worship, we have to be spiritually alive (dead people don't sing), spiritually assisted (through the enabling of the Holy Spirit), and spiritually active (committed to daily walking with the Lord).

  Keith Getty

  Song, People, Singing

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• I have to keep reminding myself that being famous on earth would be nice but I would rather walk the red carpet in Heaven.

  Behdad Sami

  Nice, Heaven, Would Be

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• The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.

  Socrates

  Memories, Writing, Character

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• I often refer to myself as a radical, reminding people that the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, meaning root. I think we need to get to the roots of problems as we try to solve them. I also like the word anti-capitalist.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Latin, Thinking, Roots

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes. My friends have to keep reminding me how crazy my life has become, and then it hits me fresh and I just slap my forehead and think, "Wait, what... ?"

  Isaac Marion

  Crazy, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.

  Jim Wallis

  Prayer, Break Through, Discipline

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• We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

  Ron Fournier

  Morning, Destiny, Yes We Can

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• The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

  C. S. Lewis

  Home, May, Accurate

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• I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accounting will eventually create bad long term consequences as a sort of obverse effect from the virtue-based boost double-entry book-keeping gave to the heyday of Venice. I suggest that when the financial scene starts reminding you of Sodomand Gomorrah, you should fear practical consequences even if you like to participate in what is going on.

  Charlie Munger

  Book, Venice, Long

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• [I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jars, Needs, My Time

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