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Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
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Let them bestow on every airth a limb, Then open all my veins that I may swim To thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake, Scatter my ashes, strew them in the air Lord! since thou knowest where all these atoms are, I'm hopeful thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident thou'lt raise me with the just.
Montrose, James Graham, 1st Marquis of— 1650 'Lines Composed on the Eve of his Execution'.
I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research--or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.
jacob m. appel— "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing", The Huffington Post (2010-06-23)
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his own propertyat the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
— Collected in Further Extracts from the Notebooks (1934).
``You are generous and your voice is blessed. When I was sick with back problems, you even made a promise to quit smoking if I´d recover. Only a great friend can do this.´´
simone bittencourt de oliveira— Xuxa (About Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira)
We will be one of the extinguished species. The good news is that life on the planet will recover and peace will return to the environment.
— Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man (2002)
We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.
horace bushnell— P. 237. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
It is shocking, It is quite obvious that security of the Sri Lankan players has been hopelessly inadequate. We condemn the shooting and we hope that players like Samaraweera and Mendis are safe and will recover.
p. chidambaram— "Security of Sri Lankan players hopelessly inadequate: Chidambaram". Times of India (Times of India). 3 March 2009. Retrieved on 3 March 2009.
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
colette— “Wedding Day”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
alice cooper— On the game of Golf in an interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003)
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.
abraham maslow— As quoted in The Meaning of Life : According to the Great and the Good (2007) edited by Richard T. Kinnier
If it had not been for his malice, forcing me to return, I would have been able to recover the whole of Outremer. Then, when I was in prison he conspired to keep me there so that he could steal my lands.
richard i of england— Richard on his alleged betrayal by King Philip; Richard I - Gillingham (from primary source)
It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able to recover from the blow, would disappear in the whirlpools on five continents, lose their national identity, and aptitude to be a political factor. But we, as a nation and as a state, were able to reappear at the international arena to affirm that we continue our eternal journey and that we are determined not to allow for such a crime to ever happen again.
serzh sargsyan— President Serzh Sargsyan’s Address on the Commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide (April 24, 2010)
I've said it before, I'll say it again, Sarah Palin will never recover from this ... No matter what people say, no matter what these polls, she has no future."
david shuster— On Sarah Palin's political future. 2009 -[5]
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.
sri aurobindo— 1905
Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
Edmund Burke— Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election (6 September 1780).
I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.
errol morris— Source: The Museum of Modern Art with Ron Rosenbaum
But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
haruki murakami— South of the Border, West of the Sun
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.
vitruvius— Chapter IX, Sec. 2
And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
— On Serpent handling dated to antiquity quoted in the Gospel of Mark(Template:Bibleref) Snake handling in some Pentecostal churches derives from this passage in the Bible.
I think that a man who has been guilty of an indictable offence ought not to have the assistance of the law to recover the profits of his crime; and that whether his agents be innocent or criminal, privy or not privy, his claim against those agents is equally inadmissible in a Court of law.
— Booke, J., Farmer v. Russell (1798), 2 Bos. & Pull. 301.
I used to pray to recover you."
— Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Daddy (l. 14)
He said: ‘Do you ask how to recover your bees? Kill a heifer and bury its carcase in the earth, Buried it will produce what you ask of me.’ The shepherd obeyed: the beast’s putrid corpse Swarmed: one life destroyed created thousands.
— Ovid, Fasti, January 9.
My brothers differ from me in opinion, and they all differ from one another in the reasons of their opinion; but notwithstanding their opinion, I think the plaintiff ought to recover, and that this action is well maintainable and ought to lie. I will consider their reasons.
— Bolt, C.J., Ashby v. White (1703), 2 Raym. 950.
Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.
— Sam Keen, The Passionate Life (1983), p. 140
If we can recover the naturalistic ambitions of Marx , Nietzsche , and Freud , ... philosophy becomes relevant because the world riven as it is with hypocrisy and concealment desperately needs a hermeneutics of suspicion to unmask it. And by taking these three seminal figures of the Continental traditions as philosophical naturalists we show their work to be continuous with the naturalistic turn that has swept Anglophone philosophy over the past several decades. ... The antipathy to naturalism often thought to be constitutive of “the Continental tradition” is simply an artifact of cutting the joints of that tradition in certain places.
— Brian Leiter "The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud" in: The Future for Philosophy, ed. Leiter (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. 74-105 (Full text online)
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love .
bruce parry— Maia Szalavitz. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook - What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love and Healing, Basic Books, 5 December 2007), p. 230
Who that woll make ony more lette hym seke other bookis kynge Arthure or of sir Launcelot and sir Trystrams; for this was drawen by a knyght presoner, sir Thomas Malleoré, that God send him good recover.
— Sir Thomas Malory at the end of the chapter The Tale of King Arthur of his larger work, written circa 1468-1470 while held in Newgate Prison as a captured partisan of the rebellious Earl of Warwick. Reprinted in Malory Works, edited by Eugene Vinaver, 1954.
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.
— Hans Arp, as quoted in: Abstract Art Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990, p. 66
Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
— used 23 November 2010, proposed by Kalki
