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Quotes About Reminder

I would write praise poems that might serve as comforts, reminders, or even cautions if needed, to wayward minds and unawakened hearts.
~ Mary Oliver
Let me be as urgent as a knife, then, and remind you of Keats, so single of purpose and thinking, for a while, he had a lifetime
~ Mary Oliver
Lucy's gift," she said. The watch had stopped. The hands were at 2:20.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
We're not cannibals,' he said as if to remind them. 'Cannibals boil people alive in cauldrons. I prefer to think of ourselves as evolved eaters. As a family, we're at the forefront of fine dining. Human flesh is an acquired taste, and I've worked hard to give you all the chance to appreciate it for yourselves.
~ Matt Whyman
Switzerland had somehow become a bywordfor Western laxity: any program or action that was deemed un- Islamic was reproached with a mocking reminder that Iran was by no means Switzerland.
~ Azar Nafisi
I wanted to remind the world (and, more important, ourselves) that these terrorists were nothing more than a band of deluded, vicious killers—criminals who could be captured, tried, imprisoned, or killed. And there would be no better way of demonstrating that than by taking out bin Laden.
~ Barack Obama
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
It might be beneficial for him occasionally to be reminded that I work for myself. That he was a stagehand, not one of the actors.
~ Barry Eisler
I have a great longing for trousers, and if I ask you in time maybe you can put in a little sequence with the trousers? Maybe her dressed as soldier, going to Napoleon's tent at night or something. I'm sorry not to contribute anything more but it is merely to remind you about the trousers. Trousers - girls in trousers. Pressed trousers. Girls. Trousers, trousers.
~ Barry Paris
A person sometimes believes she's seen all the way to the bottom of the well of human stupidity, and a reminder that that well apparently has no bottom is sometimes useful.
~ Stephen King
The African AIDS dip is a reminder that progress is not an escalator that inexorably raises the well-being of every human everywhere all the time.
~ Steven Pinker
The recent failure of democracy to take hold in many African and Islamic states is a reminder that a change in the norms surrounding violence has to precede a change in the nuts and bolts of governance.
~ Steven Pinker
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.
~ Darren Johnson
And maybe when you are going for a walk and your head is spinning a cat will show up and if you pay attention to it then you will get a reminder for just fifteen seconds that the wonder of Being might make up for the ineradicable suffering that accompanies it. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
The paintings were not there because Jordan had any totalitarian sympathies, but because he wanted to remind himself of something he knew he and everyone would rather forget: that over a hundred million people were murdered in the name of utopia.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
the general ignominy that is the corollary of insight, i.e., the ignominy of having thus far lived in error, of having failed, until the moment of so-called insight, to understand what could have been understood earlier, an ignominy only deepened by prospective shame, because the moment of insight serves as a reminder that more such moments lie ahead, and that one always goes forward in error.
~ Joseph O'Neill
Lionblaze interrupted him as Dovepaw's and Ivypaw's eyes grew even wider. "This tree is breaking its vow of silence to remind you not to give the new apprentices nightmares
~ Erin Hunter
For years it has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
~ Erma Bombeck
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
~ Erma Bombeck
Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star.
~ Ernest Cline
Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.
~ Ernest J. Gaines
Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.
~ Lily Cole