“The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.” PeopleWarShowsLastsValuesChallengesMemoriesHistoryGoneSorrowOrdinaryEndureRealizationCivil WarBitternessWornVeteranOrdinary PeopleAmerican Civil War Author:Bruce Catton
“Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?” WritingMatterGivenInterestMemoriesPiecesWonderfulModernInformationOrdinaryMouthsSaltVolumePackagesIrreverent Author:Ama Ata Aidoo
“It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought, in any part of his rational age. This is a privilege so little known to most men, that it seems almost incredible to those who, after the ordinary way, measure all others by themselves; but yet, when considered, may help us to enlarge our thoughts towards greater perfections of it, in superior ranks of spirits.” MenWayMayLittlesDoneHelpingSeemsAgeSpiritMemoriesKnownGreaterOrdinaryPerfectionIncrediblesPrivilegeSuperiorsRationalDecayOur ThoughtsProdigiesPascal Book:The Philosophical Works of John Locke Source: The Philosophical Works of John Locke
“By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.” FirstsLostMemoriesOrdinarySakeDenySequenceRecollectionSnapshotsProustLost TimePetiteMadeleinesIntegers Author:Michael Lesy
“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.” MenWayDreamMemoriesEventsOrdinaryImportanceWake UpWakingAmazedObserversSmall DreamsCredenceMan Of My Dreams Author:Andre Breton
“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.” KnowsWorldMayRunningNextLinesMemoriesMovementWindThousandOrdinarySittingTablesOddPullingFragmentsUp And DownNeedlesFourteenSitting DownDisconnectedGaleCapriciousAgitateFlaunting Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.” MenWorldMemoriesOrdinaryTalesFairyFairy TaleLuminousOrdinary Man Book:Torch Source: Torch
“Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of the human race as Perfect Man has ever been imitated so minutely.The conduct of the founder of Christianity has not governed the ordinary life of his followers. Moreover, no founder of a religion has left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim apostle.” MenHumansLeftMemoriesPerfectRaceChristianityMillionsSeriousBehaviorOrdinaryConsciousHuman RaceThis DayFollowersSolitaryFoundersSectionsApostlesMuhammadOrdinary LifeCanonPerfect ManEminence Author:David George Hogarth
“Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.” ThinkingMenWayLifeMayMeanStillsEndsAgeSuccessLife IsProcessMemoriesSuccessfulAliveProgressHeroOrdinaryDiedBeing SuccessfulSincerelyFadedOrdinary ManSuccessful LifeWholeheartedly Author:Bruce Lee