Faulty Memories Quotes

#1. 99 percent of every beautiful thing you ever knew escaped and went back out into the world where you vaguely remembered it.

Ron Padgett

#2. Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. Somewhere in there, between childhood and adulthood, the ability to distinguish right versus wrong is born.

Bart Hopkins

#3. Hands are for other human hands to hold.

Helen Macdonald

#4. Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.

Derek Sivers

#5. The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

Storm Jameson

#6. A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

Joan D. Vinge

#7. Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

Megan Hart

#8. Our memories are not simply faulty; they are faulty in favor of our ego.

John Ortberg

#9. Be strong and courageous!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

Floyd Patterson

#11. People change, they have faulty memories, gratitude for past generosities fades.

Mario Puzo

#12. She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.

Robin Hobb

#13. Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

Richard Clarke Cabot

#14. We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.

Wynton Marsalis

#16. Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around

Penn Jillette

#17. Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law.

Scott Turow