Memory is an act. As a matter of fact, it's the only thing that's real.
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Quote:- Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.
The Garden of Evening Mists
Author:- Tan Twan Eng
Category:- time
Quote:- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Author:- Walter Benjamin
Category:- time
Quote:- Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
Author:- John Johnson
Category:- hope
Quote:- Men and women may not be equally strong or smart, but that doesn't mean they can't enjoy the same opportunities within society.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Love
Quote:- Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.
Prague Tales
Author:- Jan Neruda
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.
The Brothers Karamazov
Author:- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
Author:- Brandon Sanderson
Category:- hope
Quote:- Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Author:- John Gray
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Author:- Neil Strauss
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Men are not to be judged so much by what they know, but rather by what they know they do not know.Judge a man not by his knowledge, but by his level of awareness of its limits.
Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections
Author:- Vizi Andrei
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Men are often the excuse for why most ladies are single, but rarely the reason. Look deeper and you’ll find that the reason lies in your inability to convey your own sensuality.
Author:- Lebo Grand
Category:- Love
Quote:- Men are still led by instinct before they are regulated by knowledge
Author:- Theodore Dreiser
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Men are stupid, and a lot of them need to be told things on top of being shown.
In Limbo
Author:- A.D. Aliwat
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Men do wrong to lament the flight of time, complaining that it passes too quickly and failing to perceive that its period is sufficiently long; but a good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes everything that is long past to appear to us to be present.
Author:- Leonardo da Vinci
Category:- time
Quote:- Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.
The English Patient
Author:- Michael Ondaatje
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasure. I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut
Author:- Robert Louis Stevenson
Category:- science
Quote:- Men have invented various names in which to measure distance, and have a certain pleasure in assigning units of one to the other, it is the sense that so many inches toi the spans, and so many spans to the league; in the sense that a league in the Sorannah is almost two leagues within the ancient confines of Seawall, that is, within the barony that once held the city of Dragaera, and, at the time of which we have the honor to write, still held a portion of it; yet. for all of this measurement, it is understood by those who travel and by those who listen to travelers that the meaningful unit by which distance can be measured is time.
The Phoenix Guards
Author:- Steven Brust
Category:- time