Quotes About Mnemosyne

#1. Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.

Richard Holmes

#3. This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.

Seth Shostak

#4. All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? Why should there not be something buried deep within appearances, something that wears a mask to hide itself behind the visibility of nature?

Thomas Ligotti

#5. This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

Mark Twain

#6. Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Elie Wiesel

#7. Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.

Yasmin Mogahed

#8. Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

John C. Maxwell

#9. After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.

Cecelia Ahern

#10. One must use the night.

Tove Jansson