Quotes About Reminded

#1. It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. Politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.

Ken Follett

#3. People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

Kevin Spacey

#4. Honorable, Bernita mine. To look after those who can't look after themselves, to attend to duty rather than convenience. You have reminded me of what honor requires, and I'm grateful. That last word - grateful - wasn't one Nita heard very often.

Grace Burrowes

#5. Sitting in the empty classroom and listening to the faraway sounds of noisy students in the cafeteria, I was reminded of feeling sick in class and being sent to the school nurse. The nurse's office had that same muffled sense of distance, like a satellite to the loud planet that was the school.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. The anger I'd had, everything, was gone, and kissing her reminded me, again, that she was right. We were connected to each other. She was the air in my lungs, the blood in my veins; she was my whole life.

J.J. McAvoy

#7. The more adept we become at feeling love and gratitude for all life's earthly learning experiences, the more quickly we are reminded that, whatever hardship may be placed before us, it is our choice always to return to a place of love and gratitude and to give thanks for all that still remains.

Molly Friedenfeld

#8. For me, being a mother made me a better professional, because coming home every night to my girls reminded me what I was working for. And being a professional made me a better mother, because by pursuing my dreams, I was modeling for my girls how to pursue their dreams.

Michelle Obama

#9. His voice was flat. It reminded me of long afternoons in a dark saloon. The patrons drink in cheap liquor and recycled smoke. Each stares straight ahead into his respective past.

Michael Harvey

#10. When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe ... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

Ed O'Neill

#11. Then again, she reminded herself, if she wanted Nick to take her seriously as a woman, she had to take herself seriously first.

Nora Roberts

#12. When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.

John Green

#13. My ex-girlfriend was very sexy. She reminded me of the Sphinx because she was very mysterious and eternal and solid ... and her nose was shot off by French soldiers.

Emo Philips

#14. You do not hunt a man who comes looking for you, Temujin reminded him softly.

Conn Iggulden

#15. I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore.

Jill Greenberg

#16. What is your problem?" I asked, scooping the freezing mess out of my cleavage.
"We got unfinished business," he reminded me.
"My name's not Bill." He chuckled. "Yeah, I loved that movie. Shoulda brought a katana, but it seemed like an unfair advantage.

Karen Chance

#17. I am reminded of that irregular preacher at home who was accused of wandering from his subject. He replied that, whether he stuck to his subject or not, he thanked God that he stuck to his object, which was to bring men to Christ. I hope I shall never lose sight of that.

James Fraser

#18. Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can't imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn't also a way of controlling people.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#19. She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.

Julie Metz

#20. Genya would have to keep her face hidden, but she didn't seem to mind. She'd wrapped her shawl around her head and declared, 'I shall be a woman of mystery.' I reminded her not to be too intriguing.

Leigh Bardugo

#21. We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.

Jon Porter

#22. For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

A.R. Ammons

#23. When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

Vince Cable

#24. Rebus reminded himself to stop praying. Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.

Ian Rankin

#25. When we last out at ourselves for having lost control, we are reminded that we never can be in total control, that all life asks of us is to do our best to cope with what is handed to us.

Mary Balogh

#26. It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used.

Jess Walter

#27. Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

C.S. Lewis

#28. I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

George W. Bush

#29. I could look at the sky forever. There's always something to look at, to notice. You're reminded that nothing stops, not even when it feels like everything else in your life has ground to a halt. Our world will keep turning, revolving, long after we're gone.

Andrew Auseon

#30. It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

Laura Marling

#31. We have to save the world," I reminded him.
He reached for me. "The world can wait. I can't.

Karen Marie Moning

#32. But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.

Sarah Dessen

#33. It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

Terry Pratchett

#34. It was easy to forget that
sometimes, when they were laughing together, or kissing. But then one of them would say something, or do something, and he would suddenly be reminded of the wall between their worlds.

George R R Martin

#35. These people all woke up this morning and reminded themselves to be human beings. Not everyone knows how to do that. No vermin, my people. Real human beings.

Jami Attenberg

#36. Damn and blast!" "Curates can't use language like that," I reminded my brother, and he grinned involuntarily. "I'm getting it out of my system," was his excuse.

Susanna Kearsley

#37. Submissives are not greedy, she reminded herself, even if they secretly want to be.

Red Phoenix

#38. Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.

Jostein Gaarder

#39. No matter what each day brings -- the trials and tribulations that may cross my path, the turmoil, the ugliness -- when I look at this picture I'm reminded that life is precious and there is still beauty in this world.

Ryan Troske

#40. In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything
to impress women.
(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)

Aaron Sorkin

#41. He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.

Janet Fitch

#42. [Footnote:] The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.

Will Cuppy

#43. In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

Alice Hoffman

#44. She acts like she don't like you"
"She doesn't like anyone"
"She likes Capitan Black", Orr reminded.
"That's because he treats her like dirt. Anyone can get a girl that way

Joseph Heller

#45. Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.

John Grisham

#46. He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.

Greg Behrendt

#47. Falling asleep in your arms again reminded me that I was only half a person in your absence. You make me whole.

Sylvain Reynard

#48. These officials changed names they couldn't pronounce and tore people from their families, consigning to a return voyage old folks, people with bad eyes, riffraff and also those who looked insolent. Such power was dazzling. The immigrants were reminded of home. " Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow

#49. It was only then that he met Villefort's dull gaze, that look peculiar to men of the law who do not want anyone to read their thoughts, and so make their eyes into unpolished glass. The look reminded him that he was standing before Justice, a figure of grim aspect and manners.

Alexandre Dumas

#50. There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

Prince Philip

#51. I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

George Mikes

#52. Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

Barack Obama

#53. I'm a doctor," she reminded him. "Nothing embarrasses me."
"Yeah? So if I call the hospital while you're making rounds, you won't be embarrassed when I have the operator page Dr. Smarty-pants?

Julie Garwood

#54. She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again.

Glenda Millard

#55. Twentieth-century man needs to be reminded at times that work is not the result of the Fall. Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a 'working God.' Man was made to be creative, with his mind and his hands. Work is part of the dignity of his existence.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#56. It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

Sally Mann

#57. The sun now radiated all around me and the magnificent palace that lay before me glittered invitingly. Which reminded me of another one of Mother's sayings: if something appears too good to be true, it probably is.

Jessie Harrell

#58. Her legs were gone, lost in the tangle of dark alien webs; she reminded Miller of a mermaid who had traded her fins for a space station. Her eyes were closed, but he could see them shifting and dancing under the lids. And she was breathing.

James S.A. Corey

#59. And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her ...

Stephanie Dray

#60. Just saw two ants drown together in my bathtub and it reminded me of us: a love story.

Melissa Broder

#61. The look in his eyes reminded me of myself. We were both alone in a new environment, trapped by our circumstances, and we both needed to grow up much faster than planned. Who knew that once I'd have something common with a deer.

A.B. Whelan

#62. Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

William James

#63. But, Marcie had reminded herself, I don't know the weight of anyone else's burdens - only my own. She didn't judge. She didn't feel smart or strong enough to judge.

Robyn Carr

#64. He embraced the ache. It reminded him that Amanda was real. For the first time in his life, he knew exactly what he was aching for.

Charlie Lovett

#65. If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.

Darren Johnson

#66. You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

Patricia Richardson

#67. The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing.

Abby Slovin

#68. I was feeling guilty in the beginning; it was frustrating to be successful when a lot of my friends weren't. Also, I was constantly being reminded of that by people in my family making jokes.

Cindy Sherman

#69. I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

Meghan O'Rourke

#70. We all need to be reminded to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder and to connect to that place from which everything is possible.

Arianna Huffington

#71. I tried to do my bracelet up, but couldn't get the clasp to fasten, and before I tossed it across the room, Will grabbed my hand and fixed the silver clasp for me.
"Jesus, Mark, surely Batman can do up his own bracelets."
"Batman. Bat. Man, Will," I reminded him. "I'm not Magneto.

N.R. Walker

#72. I'm not too heavy?" she asked. He had just come off crutches, after all.
Sophie, you're practically a midget," he reminded her.

Sarah Mayberry

#73. The view reminded of the Haitain proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains" which meant that when you'd solved one problem, you couldn't rest because you had to go on and solve the next.

Tracy Kidder

#74. You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and 'The Passion' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it.

James Nesbitt

#75. The golden trail was blazed and I was reminded of the eternal, of Mozart, of the stars. For an hour I could breathe again and live and face existence, without having to suffer torment, fear or shame.

Hermann Hesse

#76. It reminded Lacy of running into someone you hadn't seen for a while, and finding her bald and missing her eyebrows: you knew she was in the throes of chemotherapy, but pretended you didn't, because it was easier that way for both of you.

Jodi Picoult

#77. Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start to wake from a dream you don't want to leave. That crushing sensation in the center of your chest, like you are losing an important piece of yourself you won't ever get back.

Jennifer Rush

#78. My neighbours porch light flickered on. My eyes darted down the street.
"Can we go inside before someone calls the police?" I asked.
"I am the police," Nathan reminded me.

Elicia Hyder

#79. It was impossible to look forward when one was constantly being reminded of painful loss.

Lisa Kleypas

#80. Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read.

Rebecca Raisin

#81. I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first."
"Of course you may go first. When I am dead.

Nalini Singh

#82. When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.

Sean Stephenson

#83. yesterday, n.

You called to ask me when I was coming home, and when I reminded you that I wasn't coming home, you sounded so dissapointed that I decided to come home.

David Levithan

#84. There was no telling if I'd be reborn when I died, but the waltz began and ended with my four notes. He'd built the music around things that reminded him of me. And now this name. My name.

Jodi Meadows

#85. She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

Freya North

#86. It didn't matter what my heart said, I reminded myself. My heart told me stupid stuff all the time. My heart should just shut the hell up.

Karen Chance

#87. I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

Warren G. Bennis

#88. It's so hard to keep perspective and keep things in context, and it's so easy to get distracted. This film [Shelter] reminded me how important it is to remain aware, and to keep seeing the things that are happening around the world.

Jennifer Connelly

#89. It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

George Orwell

#90. Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

Dean Koontz

#91. I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

Abraham Lincoln

#92. It seems at least once a day I'm reminded to be grateful that insanity and poor driving isn't contagious.

Lisa Shiroff

#93. Everything about her shredded my heart because she reminded me too much of my mother, and she reminded me too much of my mother's death. I couldn't handle it. And so I pushed her away.

Jessica Park

#94. It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns

Molly O'Neill

#95. I was reminded of the old man who used to go into a large city church every day and just sit there. One day the minister asked him what he did each day. The old man smiled and said, 'I look at Him, and He looks at me.' That's real prayer!

Alexander Cameron

#96. We are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth or status or power or fame, but rather how well we have Loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

Barack Obama

#97. Chloe, what would it take to start anew with you?" Hopelessness settled over him when she murmured, "More than you've got." Yet then he reminded himself, She has no' seen all I've got.

Kresley Cole

#98. Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

Ron Fournier

#99. One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

Susan Orlean

#100. When others see you at peace, they're reminded of the value of tranquility - that is, you inspire them to be at peace.

Doreen Virtue