A Quote by Mari Evans

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

Mari Evans

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Been City Memory Opposing Span Wills

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Mari Evans
American - Poet
Born: July 16, 1923

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

Tariq Ali

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

Thomas John Barnardo

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

Aldo Rossi

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

Havelock Ellis

To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

George Steiner

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

Chaim Potok

I've got a short memory span.

O. J. Mayo

I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.

Sophie Calle

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

Claire Messud

For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church wills it. St. Paul tells us that the Jews are our brothers. They should also be welcomed as friends.

Pope Pius XII

There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

Jerry Seinfeld

A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie

R. A. Salvatore

Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any

Aiden Wilson Tozer

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

Thomas Aquinas

Violence and hatefulness have never been - nor will they ever be - who we are. This is the city I was born in, the city I was raised in and the city I love. Portland is also a united city.