Forgotten Quotes

1912 Forgotten quotes by 1350 unique authors

For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time… — Siegfried Sassoon
Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful. — Maureen Dowd
The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule… — Maureen Dowd
Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold… — Steven Erikson
Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men… — W G Sebald
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. — Mark Lowry
Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many. — Giorgio Moroder
I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create children of a… — Richard Rodriguez
Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten… — Amy Goodman
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from… — Ornette Coleman
Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror… — Massad Ayoob
Treat [the customer] as guests when they come and when they go, whether or not they buy. Give them all that can be given fairly,… — Harry Gordon Selfridge
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape… — Ivan Chtcheglov
If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that… — Alexander Payne
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban wilderness and into… — Brandon Massey
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love — Ruth St. Denis
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing… — Norman Borlaug
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world… — Norman Borlaug
We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we… — Henry David Thoreau
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac
The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing. — Peter Lynch
I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is… — J C Ryle
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no… — H. Rider Haggard
I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's… — Michael W. Smith

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