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Related SHOLOM ALEICHEM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the... JACOB EPSTEIN There are a few reasons why Christians should celebrate Passover. The Lord celebrated Passover [at t... CHRIS BAKER RICHARD CARLSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Passover is one of my favorite times of the year. This is when the whole community and family gets t... JENNIFER WAGNER When one gets to Clement or Hippolytus, we are clearly a long way from what we find in Paul and the ... BEN WITHERINGTON III RICHARD CARLSON In the end it doesn't matter what you do. HARRISON BIRTWISTLE DEYTH BANGER GINA GREENLEE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... GREGORY MAGUIRE It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA Remember meditation is an active, deep remembrance, and that is discernment. Wherever you go, wherev... TONY SAMARA BONO THICH NHAT HANH It goes back to Christianity's affiliation with Judaism as Passover. Easter is as important to Chris... GLENN DUFFY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. FRANCINE RIVERS So the ads are around you. You may not remember seeing them, but people around you do, or you don't ... LESLIE B. SNYDER If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening. MARY GRIFFITH GEORGE R. R. MARTIN SHARON SALZBERG Remember if you are not in the kitchen cooking the meal they will change the menu and you will be th... SHERONDA ORRIDGE LYDIA MILLET LEO TOLSTOY KILROY J. OLDSTER There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO Remember that even if you haven't been audited in the past, it doesn't mean you won't be in the futu... KATHY BURLISON MANDY HALE SOLANGE NICOLE ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM WILLIAM FAULKNER J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY THICH NHAT HANH JAY ASHER RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO SOPHOCLES G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE NEIL GAIMAN TACITUS PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you... BROOKE LANGTON God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON RICK RIORDAN HAROLD PINTER J.D. SALINGER Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE ERNEST HEMINGWAY Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE DEYTH BANGER Remember! When you promise someone the moon; it's not yours in the first place. ANTHONY T.HINCKS The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, ... STUART HADDON I miss parts of it. I don't miss the actual place. That's never as good as you remember it. ASHLEY POSTON The best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down next to them and te... TEGAN QUIN HAROLD PRINCE GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Stay beautiful, tay positive, and remember that you remember in this world. LIFEOFGRACE Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI RICHARD BACH STEPHEN CHBOSKY SARAH J. MAAS CORMAC MCCARTHY Never remember the problematic issues, or live in a never-ending shadow without forgiveness. RACHEL K. MYRICK People say internet is a dirty place . I'd say it's neutral as
money are. Remember? You can either b... SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST JOHN GREEN In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in... EUDORA WELTY ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only... TOM WUJEC MAGGIE STIEFVATER ABBEY LEE KERSHAW YOGI BERRA LINDA FIORENTINO For everything we do, we are planting seeds SOTONYE ANGA GERMANY KENT Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... DAVID LEVITHAN It happens so quick you don't really remember what happened. One wreck I was in, I remember being in... MIKE JONES KRISTIN DAVIS STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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TARYN SIMON With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a... SAM SIMON I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think. SAM SIMON I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do t... SAM SIMON 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thoug... SAM SIMON I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work. SAM SIMON One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, ... SAM SIMON The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken ... SAM SIMON Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with. SAM SIMON I don't believe in miracles. SAM SIMON I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We... SAM SIMON A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl.... SAM SIMON I want to do whatever I can to survive. SAM SIMON I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr... SAM SIMON Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate chang... SAM SIMON The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun... SAM SIMON There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bi... SAM SIMON When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use. SAM SIMON Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan. SAM SIMON Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim... SAM SIMON SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav... 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Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. 
Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) 
Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house. 
In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place. 
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. 
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. 
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. 
Were you there?”
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. 
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. 
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems... 
Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. 
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you r... 
An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. 
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. 
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... 
No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... 
I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... 
You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. 
Life is a journey, not a destination. 
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
To him, even the momentary was momentous. 
I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... 
So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants. 
So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants 
When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... 
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you ... 
Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... 
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... 
Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly. 
Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as... 
Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself int... 
The radio comes back even louder than you remember it. 
How'd you remember my brother's name?" She shrugged, not quite understanding the gleam in his eye. "... 
You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. 
Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other... 
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics. 
In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener. 
When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. 
In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work. 
6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:
I thought about the word 'profile' and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we're looking at a... 
Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happe... 
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct ... 
I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had pu... 
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part ... 
There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice. 
No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will ope... 
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you. 
Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyt... 
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arriv... 
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinning... 
Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue t... 
The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world... 
It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his we... 
Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporatio... 
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. 
People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others d... 
Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;... 
There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhe... 
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. 
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted: 
For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews... 
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuis... 
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. 
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. 
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause ... 
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. Th... 
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another p... 
You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. 
Playing piano well is one thing, but attempting to play at concert level accompanying Meryl Streep w... 
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclips... 
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for... 
Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill. 
There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. 
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope. 
A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingl...