Recollects Quotes

#1. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#4. He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on.

Aleksandar Hemon

#5. My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

Ashwin Sanghi

#6. No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#7. Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

William Faulkner

#8. Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#9. The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

Thiruvalluvar

#10. I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

Annie Lennox

#11. It's simpler to believe in a miracle.

William Golding

#12. I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

Rokia Traore

#13. Life is like a prison. To survive it is through self-healing and absolute dignity.

Izad

#14. If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.

Richard Schmid

#15. Never send a boy to do a woman's job.

Angelina Jolie