James Saurin (1759–1842) Bishop of Dromore; Irish Anglican bishop
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 270.
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Chilean poet 1904–1973Related quotes
“Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: p>Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…</p
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.”
Richard Dawkins book The Selfish Gene
Source: The Selfish Gene
“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Choke
Variant: Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
Source: Choke
Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (2000), p. 215
Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
"Power and Love" (1926)
Context: p> Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid
Using power,
Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the world,
So let us, cautious in diction
And mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.</p
“Let us achieve great things for those who granted us the privilege to serve.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Scotland and Northern Ireland (June 18, 2007)