"I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived"

-- Karen Maitland

#Memories Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.”
“Law is a bottomless pit.”

Source : 'The History of John Bull' (1712) ch. 24
“Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.”
“Our power is in our ability to decide.”
“People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.”
“I've always felt that copious use of the word 'something' allows anyone to solve any problem, even insoluble ones.”

Source : João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA
“You don't like presents or anything new, you don't even need a card. You prefer your appreciations to be something of helpfulness, for someone else's regard.”
“You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.”

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