Forgotten Quotes

1912 Forgotten quotes by 1350 unique authors

The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action… — Michel de Certeau
Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts of beautiful country,… — Fred Bear
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep… — Lee Kuan Yew
At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling… — T.C. Boyle
When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home… — John O'Donohue
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten. — Ezra Stiles
My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. — Evita Peron
Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways.… — Andrew McMahon
It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for or gone, transformed… — Andrew McMahon
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons… — David Bentley Hart
I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot.… — Marianne Fredriksson
Emotions are lovely. Even if they fall to the negative for a time. The sun will rise again another day. The sadness perhaps never forgotten,… — Anne Mallory
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly… — Albert J. Nock
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it… — Ben Hecht
Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just… — Ransom Riggs
Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope...now… — Dziga Vertov
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it.… — Art Buchwald
We've been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and… — Eric Ludy
When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse,… — Lancelot Andrewes
The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past,… — Jan Morris
The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten. — William H. Whyte
But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men,… — John Thorn
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech. — Art Buchwald

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