Reminding Quotes

#1. The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas, which may become reassuring in the context of the terror of death.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.

Ferdinand Mount

#3. A young man seeks a woman and finds her and is great and dies to the world. Afterward he is never as great again, but the woman is a comfort to him, reminding him of the time that was, and he is a little again with her what once he was wholly.

Gene Wolfe

#4. I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.

Rex Stout

#5. I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.

Maureen Johnson

#6. There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. The only way we'll ever know what it's like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That's where home is.

Bill Murray

#8. Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

Max Lucado

#9. You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

Adam Arkin

#10. Value of gold is understood in crisis than on a occasion. But the gold plays both the role reminding its significance. We yet times need to value and de-value to understand and appreciate significance of several things.

Santosh Avvannavar

#11. Whenever you feel weak, God is reminding you to depend on him.

Rick Warren

#12. Rank is a paycheck. Respect is earned. If you find yourself reminding people of your rank, then you are just a paycheck.

Michael A. Wood Jr.

#13. They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang.

Marisha Pessl

#14. Once they were the same age. Now Leah is aging in dog years. Her thirty-five is seven times his, and seven times more important, so important he has to keep reminding her of the numbers, in case she forgets.

Zadie Smith

#15. God has a funny way of reminding us we're human. [About his impromptu water break during his delivery of the GOP rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union on February 12, 2013]

Marco Rubio

#16. He is constantly reminding me that real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.

Martha N. Beck

#17. The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

Joe Meno

#18. ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. I was just a shell of the person I used to be-hard on the outside and empty on the inside. Those marks were my own personal tombstonr, reminding me every day that I was just as dead as the one I'd murdered.

Tabatha Vargo

#20. You need reminding.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#21. gravitational pull" of depression by reminding you in key ways of what science has now shown: it is actually okay to

Mark Williams

#22. 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

#23. I'd stare up at the sky, reminding myself that Caleb and I were both underneath it. That wherever he was, whatever he was doing, we would always share something.

Anna Carey

#24. When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

Baltasar Gracian

#25. A part of me, of course, was reminding myself over and over and over again that I should never have tried to lie to the higher angels of the Ephorate. Hubris, the Greeks called that. "A dumbshit move," might be a more contemporary way of putting it.

Tad Williams

#26. Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.

C.J. Mahaney

#27. We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

Louie Anderson

#28. In every rainstorm it's your scream that I hear after every lightning strike.

Reminding me of better days and the days of tomorrow

Austin V. Songer

#29. At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

Robert Hilburn

#30. Before she'd fallen asleep, she'd been reminding herself that she couldn't let herself like him, yet here she was, cuddled against him, in his arms again. She decided she'd go back to hating him tomorrow.

Kelly Walker

#31. Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.

Tig Notaro

#32. It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

Luke Davies

#33. I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact.

P.D. James

#34. You go often into the silence, but have you developed anubhava?" He was reminding me to love God more than meditation. "Do not mistake the technique for the Goal.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#35. I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

John D. Rockefeller

#36. The main job of radicals in the Noam Chomsky or G. Gordon Liddy mode is to go around from one scruffy lecture hall to another reminding audiences while they may be disdained or ignored by the mainstream culture, they are actually right about everything.

David Brooks

#37. Sometimes it was easier to stay and suffer for the short term than to have a permanent scar reminding you of the past.

Peter Monn

#38. The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.

Criss Jami

#39. So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.

George W. Bush

#40. Jane: Missy was not so subtly reminding me that she had done something nice for me and here i was being rude when all she was asking me to do was attend a nice party. This was the way southern women worked all peaches & cream laced with arsenic.

Molly Harper

#41. 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

#42. The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.

Roz Savage

#43. With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.

Yasmin Mogahed

#44. Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.

Coretta Scott King

#45. The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

Helmut Newton

#46. So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.

Ally Carter

#47. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and never make you truly whole.

Amy Poehler

#48. I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

Jake Owen

#49. It's just another weapon. Its nature depends on who wields it. He would have to keep reminding himself. The thoughts of hatred were so old they had become instincts. This was not something he could cure overnight. Like Nina with parem, it might well be a lifelong fight.

Leigh Bardugo

#50. This woman is my salvation. She is my anchor in this world. "My angel," I whisper to her, reminding her who she is to me.

Abbi Glines

#51. To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#52. All those pictures in my past, now that reminding me of just how beautiful You are.

Big Daddy Weave

#53. I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people the way 'Community' means something to people. That's more powerful than ratings.

Gillian Jacobs

#54. I can feel him step close, then his hands lay on my shoulders, and they burn in the most delicious way, only reminding me how dangerous Benjamin is to me, to my soul. How fast I would get lost in him, only to end up with a broken heart when I could not be the woman he expected me to be.

Nicole Kiefer

#55. The scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began
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John Geddes

#56. You're seventeen! Why do I have to keep reminding you of that? There are soooo many women you haven't even met yet! Don't act like you're tired of the puss-puss, no guy is ever tired of the puss-puss.

Sara Wolf

#57. The Griffith House was like nothing Viviane remembered, reminding her of how fast the world changed and of how insignificant she was in the grand scheme of things. She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and difficult. One or the other seemed quite enough.

Leslye Walton

#58. A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain.

John E. Sarno

#59. Our healthy shame is essential as the foundation of our spirituality. By reminding us of our essential limitations, our healthy shame lets us know that we are not God. Our healthy shame points us in the direction of some larger meaning. Our healthy shame is the psychological ground of our humility.

John Bradshaw

#60. We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.

Samuel Johnson

#61. When I don't know where to turn, You always draw me near; when I start to feel alone, I can feel Your presence here, reminding me of everything I ever need to have or be has already found a place somewhere inside of me.

Lisa Mischelle Wood

#62. It's going to hurt and it will feel raw for a long time, but that's life reminding you it will all be okay.

T.A. Hardenbrook

#63. Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time
these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#64. Your scars only make you dearer to me, reminding me of what a hero you are. My eyes behold the most handsome man in the world.

Melanie Dickerson

#65. Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren't.

Jay McInerney

#66. (was this a thing the kids were doing, Bernie wondered while reminding herself that she was only thirty-one, still a kid, maybe).

Sarah Title

#67. For all sins, as theologians weary not of reminding us, are sins of disobedience. When that high spirit, that morning star of evil, fell from heaven, it was as a rebel that he fell.

Oscar Wilde

#68. What if Science is God's way of reminding us that he is greater than the stories and dogma we have confined him to?

Steve Maraboli

#69. I'm simply reminding you that you're worth more than what you'll find at the bottom of a bottle.

Myra McEntire

#70. By grounding yourself in mindfulness early in the morning, you are reminding yourself that things are always changing, that good and bad things come and go, and that it is possible to embody a perspective of of constancy, wisdom, and inner peace as you face any conditions that present themselves.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#71. You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history.

Charlie Sheen

#72. I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.

Elizabeth Berrien

#73. Put the damn measuring tape away," Vee ordered. "I already know my size. I don't need reminding.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#74. Deke looked at me anxiously, reminding me very much of a large and handsome dog who needs a stick to fetch.

Jeff Lindsay

#75. Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.

Soren Kierkegaard

#76. In order to build continuity and momentum in the meditation practice, you will need to keep reminding yourself to come back to the breath over and over again, no matter what the mind is up to from one moment to the next.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#77. I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus." Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige.

Ilona Andrews

#78. Tiny drops of fresh dung littered the top of the boulders, reminding her of the old apprentice trick of telling kits they were tasty berries.

Erin Hunter

#79. Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

Zora Neale Hurston

#80. When a rainbow spreads across the sky it is reminding the world that beauty comes in all colors.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#81. She's always busy, too busy, and is always reminding herself of this fact, so that the notion of an empty apartment, even an empty bed, holds no more than faint flush of alarm. And only when she thinks about it ... She'll manage, though. She knows she will.

Carol Shields

#82. Ignore the world when it forgets to tell you that you are beautiful...A goddess needs no reminding...

Virginia Alison

#83. When I got married, I was all in love, but then came life intruding in, and sometimes it's difficult ... I would look at my husband and ask, 'did we do it too quickly?' ... But my husband was strong in his resolve. He kept reminding me that people go through this, and that we were going to be ok.

Angela Bassett

#84. All that matters is that artists keep reminding mortals about what really matters: the wonder, the glory, the madness, the importance and the improbability of love.

Hannah Mary Rothschild

#85. When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get back to work tomorrow.

Nita Leland

#86. What else had I forgotten? What else would come back, knocking me off balance and reminding me how tenuous my grip on reality was?

Susannah Cahalan

#87. The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

#88. Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

Amy Chua

#89. I just gotta keep reminding myself: Every time I do an interview or something, my volition really has to be just to serve, to help people. Not to feel like I'm important.

Rivers Cuomo

#90. The noise made Kim want to cover her ears, reminding her, as it did, of diarhoettic excretion.

Shaun Hutson

#91. The appearance of mediocrity is often useful in life because it weakens tautly strung strings and sobers up people's self-confident or self-forgetful feelings, reminding them how close they are to mediocrity as well.

Ivan Turgenev

#92. We have to keep reminding ourselves that we have to stop, or we never will.

Jasinda Wilder

#93. It always hurt not to breathe like a normal person, incessantly reminding your lungs to be lungs, forcing yourself to accept as unsolvable the clawing scraping inside-out ache of underoxygenation.

John Green

#94. In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

#95. Occasionally he will catch the whispers of this abandoned voice, in the afterglow of certain dreams with that lingering sense of a paradise lost, reminding him of another kind of life, the life he was always meant to live, but for whatever reason, he did not.1

Michael Goorjian

#96. The rain falls endlessly, and even on the hottest of summer days, blooming white cumulus clouds float above, their shadows reminding you that summer's heat is fleeting, and the rain's never far off

Gayle Forman

#97. Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.

Ben Shapiro

#98. It's different this time,' they used to like to say. But it's never different. Life has a way of reminding you of that truth every few years. One day everything worked and then suddenly it stopped.

Paul MacDonald

#99. In January 2006, Phantom of The Opera broke the record for the longest-running show in Broadway history, overtaking Cats and reminding us what real entertainment is about: candles, dry ice, big hair, and the sort of synthesized chord progressions only achieved by a collapse at the keyboard.

Emma Brockes

#100. The universe is always speaking to us ... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

Nancy Thayer