Quotes About Retrieve

We meant to temporarily disable her," Ian said. "Just a drop. But Natalie slipped during air turbulence. Before we could warn your nose-ringed nanny, she drenched us. Luckily, she allowed us to retrieve the antidote from our carry-on." "That's kindness," Amy said. "I made them agree to give me all their cash," Nellie explained. "That's bribery," Natalie grumbled.

thought—the expert and the heuristic—as well as the entirely automatic mental activities of perception and memory, the operations that enable you to know there is a lamp on your desk or retrieve the name of the capital of Russia.

Attention is malleable. We can intensify it, shift it either voluntarily or involuntarily. We can soften it, diffuse it. We can deploy global attention toward tangible external objects, or to their intangible attributes. We can direct attention internally to retrieve items that we have stored in memory. We can sustain attention by infusing a component of motivation, either from the top-down (by intention) or by much more subtler means related to our habitual ongoing attitudes.

La memoria es el perro más estúpido, le lanzas un palo y te trae cualquier otra cosa.

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

Somebody sent those wolves to retrieve something—maybe the same something I'm looking for." Alex considered. "You think Loki sent the wolves." I shrugged. "Loki's gonna Loki.

That night they left the tooth beneath his pillow and El Ratoncito Pérez came to retrieve it, leaving Luca a poem and a new toothbrush in its place.

pendulum to help them find lost items. I

Tiktok in her pocket, so it would not get lost again.

He felt the mystery of his own unconscious like a whale looming invisibly beneath a tiny swimmer. If he couldn't search or retrieve or view his own past, then it wasn't really his. It was lost.

Now you learn some fucking discretion? Fine. Pay me a dollar." John had seen this movie too. He fished out a dollar and handed it over, and Galen crumpled it and threw it at him. It bounced off John's forehead. Galen retrieved it and did it again.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

This is thrice I have been forced to retrieve my horse from your vile clutches. And why is it, mistress, you feel the need to snatch my poor beast each time?" Damn the woman if she didn't pat Horse in a most proprietary manner and look at the beast with a great amount of unwarranted affection. "Because he likes me," she said, looking back at Richard coolly.

There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.

GOD is of the East possess'd, God is ruler of the West; North and South alike, each land Rests within His gentle hand. He, the only righteous one, Wills that right to each be done. 'Mongst His hundred titles, then, Highest praise be this!—Amen. Error seeketh to deceive me, Thou art able to retrieve me; Both in action and in song Keep my course from going wrong. THE

Come pick me up

Time lost can never be retrieved. Time cannot be hoarded, only spent well.

Thy William went willing, Kit. Even though thou didst retrieve him-mad poets, the both of you-the debt is paid for seven times seven years.

She shook out her skirts in the hall, and retrieved her silver-tipped ebony wand.

If only one knew what to remember or pretend to remember. Make a decision and what you want from the lost things will present itself. You can take it down like a can from a shelf. Perhaps.

I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.

I wished I could take those words back. Gather them up like butterflies in a net.