The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never be anything more than my body. No matter what I accomplish, I will be fat, first and foremost.
It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)
LSU fans have descended upon Dallas and reminded us of this truth: when it comes to partying, they're the pros and we're all amateurs.
newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard. . . Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
I want to keep working. I want to step away from young adult fiction. I want to do theater periodically - Farragut North reminded me how great it is. I started out in theater. I trained in theater and then I kind of fell into film and TV. I want to work with interesting artists, talented actors, talented directors, and talented scripts. Not necessarily leading roles.
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.
You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.
Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.
Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
You got the impression that each and every little individual was feeling pretty important doing the pretty important job of building up a State. The atmosphere reminded me of a word it was ’democracy. ’
It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home from Albany when snow hit. “It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t prepared to deal with it, move to Miami.
So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful than death. And even those who have committed great violence can have the image of God come to life again within them as they hear the whisper of love. May the whisper of love grow louder than the thunder of violence. May we love loudly.
As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.
When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.