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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.


Michel de Montaigne

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND The Renaissance scholar Michel de Montaigne said, 'there is little less trouble in governing a priva...
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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DEYTH BANGER I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne Certain br...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE We don't get to choose what happens to us, just what we do about it.
BJ MORIN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to...
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate ...
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE We don't choose what we are, but we choose what we do.
V.E. SCHWAB It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save tha...
FRANCIS BACON It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save tha...
BOHDI SANDERS You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER "Since we don't always get we want, the growth is in making what we get, what we want." - Simcha Glu...
SIMCHA GLUCK What is the past but what we choose to remember?
AMY TAN What is The Country? For them, or for us?...
MARIANA FULGER It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we sav...
FRANCIS BACON and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in Amer...
GEORGE W. BUSH We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suff...
NEIL JORDAN All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN We are what we are.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become.
PEGGY TONEY HORTON It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that...
FRANCIS BACON, SR. It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that...
FRANCIS BACON SR. True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
LESLIE WHAT This name gives us a blank slate. It does connote geography but it's not being used. It gives us the...
LARRY BURKHARDT It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but wha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER 'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE What we have ahead of us represents a challenge significantly greater than when we first went to the...
MICHAEL GRIFFIN What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up.
"Yes," I sai...
SARAH DESSEN Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be ...
BLAISE PASCAL We are very proud to add Blake Dunaway to our Faulkner club. He represents what we want as a basebal...
ANDY PRIOLA Would we like to choose what stores come in? Yes, but that's not legal.
CONNY CULVER We have confident; God gives only what pleases Him.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
BLAISE PASCAL What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is what it is. We are not the ones who designed it, but we sure can color it in the hues that w...
MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE) It represents our beliefs. For us, it's what the real meaning of Christmas is all about.
LORRAINE GRITZEN It matters not what a person is born, but who they choose to be.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
AMY TAN We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
CARDINAL NEWMAN We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not ...
PATRICIA HAMPL I know it doesn't feel this way all the time, but we get to choose what we care about and what we sp...
JOHN GREEN Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what lif...
WADE BOGGS I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain thin...
NOELLE ADAMS I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain thin...
NOELLE ADAMS Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple...
CRAIG GROESCHEL No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
CHARLES SIMMONS I dos what I pleases
NICKI MINAJ You are what you are, and what you are is not me!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Patience pleases us causing not only to say the right thing in the right place but also not to tell ...
NISHI DE SILVA The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
BLAISE PASCAL I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleas...
JORGE LUIS BORGES Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To find why that happen and why this is happening, you should start from the beginning the problem c...
DEYTH BANGER People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what??
(I'm stupi...
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KILROY J. OLDSTER The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
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DEREK LANDY We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But...
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GINA GREENLEE When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
JEFFREY FRY Life is what you make of it.
You have to decide what you want in life.
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JAMES C. DOBSON Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
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GORDON B. HINCKLEY What we want is not just that they construct a building but that they also build the community. The ...
EMILIO HERNANDEZ Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once...
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I want death to find me planting my cabbage
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is not death that alarms me, but dying.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My art and profession is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE ...there is no constant existence, neither of our being, nor of the objects. And we, and our judgeme...
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I quote others in order to better express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, gr...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never s...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dis...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most s...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
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