Quotes About Erasing

I think it's a disgrace that we're allowing extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.

I have become very good at clearing histories.

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

And last week, when he finally began to erase it, he noticed something very strange: the accent on the letter E was actually formed from a piece of materiel. We all watched as he stared at the letter E for a very long time. Then he slowly unpeeled the rolled-up cloth fro the blackboard and unfurled the biggest pair of polka dot panties anyone in the room had ever seen.

Forgetting the pain you are in now doesn't erase the pain,rather it builds it up for exploding later.

I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.

Lo que se enfatiza en todo momento es el olvidar, el borrar, el dejar y el reemplazar.

he had learned for mind control and for erasing the habit of worry that was consuming so many in our complex society.

Think of water under pressure in a pipe. They thought of it. I pierce it once, said the Controller. What a jet. He pierced it twenty times. There were twenty piddling little fountains. ~ Erasing passion and desire.

Esquecer é uma necessidade. A vida é uma lousa, em que o destino, para escrever um novo caso, precisa de apagar o caso escrito.

He thought of his old tapes, the ones he'd had for years, the ones he'd used over and over again. Their silence was always different to the silence of a new tape: it was loaded, prickly with things recorded and erased; a silence that was like ghosts. That house was an old tape masquerading as a new one. It had recorded and erased, but it was pretending it had just come out of the cellophane. It had ghosts, but it wasn't owning up to them.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. Impossible, of course.

Sorry Ulf, maar ik moest je tegenhouden voordat je verder banjerde. Ik wil niet dat je allerlei sporen uitwist die hij daar achtergelaten kan hebben.' 'Als je maar weet dat ik niet banjer,' zei Ulf, een tikkeltje beledigd. 'Ik beweeg me heel lichtvoetig voort.' 'Neem me niet kwalijk,' zei Lydia. 'Ik bedoelde natuurlijk te zeggen dat ik je moest tegenhouden voordat je daar heel lichtvoetig allerlei sporen zou uitwissen.

History is also a hard taskmaster, for she covers her paths by erasing so much evidence from her records—

I wouldn't call my pre-Warren drinking out of control because I had control. So long as I didn't leave my apartment, I didn't drink. In Cambridge, that person no longer exists. With an invisible eraser, I'm internally rubbing hard at the core of her, and Warren's steady, unwavering gaze is lasering away her external edges. Soon she'll be mist.

Waves of consciousness roll in, roll out, leave some writing, and just as quickly new waves roll in and erase it. I try to quickly read what's written there, but it's hard.

Die Vergangenheit löscht man am besten mit einem wahnsinnegen Betragen aus, wenn man sich schon im Irrenhaus befindet.

You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key.

I recently traveled to Iraq, and I am trying to understand the role torture is playing there. We are told it's about getting information, but I think it's more than that—I think it may also have had to do with trying to build a model country, about erasing people and then trying to remake them from scratch.

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.

It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.

The wounds of the past could always be camouflaged. Erasing them to extinguish all trace was the greater challenge.