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1 " Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." " The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. " Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight." Dorothea?" " Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully." Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. " She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying. "
2 " ...the act of remembering is imagined as a real act, that is, as a physical act: as walking...the means of retrieving the stored information was walking through the rooms like a visitor in a museum...to walk the same route again can mean to think the same thoughts again, as though thoughts and ideas were indeed fixed objects in a landscape one need only know how to travel through. In this way, walking is reading, even when both the walking and reading are imaginary, and the landscape of the memory becomes a text as stable as that to be found in the garden, the labyrinth, or the stations. "
3 " Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them. "
― Alison Weir , Six Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story (Six Tudor Queens #0.1)
4 " Any man,” she muttered, “who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away in an institution.” “Marriage is an institution,” he said reasonably, retrieving her gown from the floor. "
― Lisa Kleypas , The Hathaways Complete Series (The Hathaways #1-5)
5 " ...education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can't have higher-level learning- you can't analyze-without retrieving information.' And you can't retrieve information without putting the information in there in the first place. The dichotomy between " learning" and " memorizing" is false, Matthews contends. You can't learn without memorizing, and if done right, you can't memorize without learning. "
6 " Dissociative identity disorder is conceptualized as a childhood onset, posttraumatic developmental disorder in which the child is unable to consolidate a unified sense of self. Detachment from emotional and physical pain during trauma can result in alterations in memory encoding and storage. In turn, this leads to fragmentation and compartmentalization of memory and impairments in retrieving memory.2,4,19 Exposure to early, usually repeated trauma results in the creation of discrete behavioral states that can persist and, over later development, become elaborated, ultimately developing into the alternate identities of dissociative identity disorder. "
― Bethany L. Brand
7 " I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have formerly judged to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon as to evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this - because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if judge him to be in a swoon, though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life. "
― John Owen
8 " All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity. "
― Aristotle , The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
9 " As to the past, I would not mind retrieving from various corners of space-time certain lost comforts, such as baggy trousers and long, deep bathtubs. "
― Vladimir Nabokov
10 " Just like a human foetus, while in the uterus, retrieves and assimilates the components that allow its physical body to become whole and fit to emerge into the outer reality, the third dimension serves the purpose of shamanic pregnancy, which is about retrieving and integrating the fragmented pieces of the soul, finally giving birth to the multidimensional self. "
― Franco Santoro
11 " He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter—the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the inevitability if its steady progress through the postal system; the passing from bag to bag and postman to postman until a lone man in a van pulls up to the door and pushes a small pile through the letterbox. It seemed suddenly horrible that one's words could not be taken back, one's thoughts allowed none of the remediation of speaking face to face. "
― Helen Simonson , Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
