Top 1200 Poor Memory Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

I'm aware of everything - it's my job - I keep up to speed, and I have a blessed memory. The brain chemistry I have is such that my memory is wonderful. And sometimes it's helpful, and other times it ends up being frustrating.

I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Every time you hear that the majority of Democratic candidates go on stage, they say poor women of color need access to abortion. I was born to a poor woman of color. I was a poor woman of color when I gave birth to my children. Who's to say that their lives are worth any less than others?

RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.

An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

You've got to gamble on yourself. If you don't, no one else is going to. It's very hard when you're poor to turn down money. When you've got money, it's easy. When you're poor, you need money today. People take advantage of poor people.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn’t cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.

Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.