Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.

Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on a tape recorder? We cannot forget on command. So we just have to let the forgetting happen as it will; we shouldn't rush it, and we certainly should not doubt the genuineness of our forgiving if we happen to remember. The really important thing is that we have the power to forgive what we still do remember.

Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

I use memories but I will not allow memories to use me.

Memory is a great betrayer.

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short.

For as long as I can remember, I've had memories.

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.

I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I talked with other people about them, and I trusted the aggregated memories.

I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.

I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.

You think you have a memory; but it has you!

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Use memories. Don't let memories use you.