Forgotten Quotes
1912 Forgotten quotes by 1350 unique authors
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
— Warren Cuccurullo
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The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
— A B Simpson
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
— Zhu Rongji
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When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often…
— Alice Hoffman
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It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of…
— Jean Paul
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I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like…
— Anna Quindlen
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[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a…
— Paul Krugman
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Drawing prayer circles isn’t about proving yourself to God; it’s about giving God an opportunity to prove Himself to you. Just in case you have…
— Mark Batterson
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God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.
— Louie Giglio
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The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit…
— Zhuangzi
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Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?
— Zhuangzi
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Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While…
— Etienne de La Boetie
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Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.
— William Wordsworth
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One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have…
— Omar N. Bradley
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Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming…
— Gaston Bachelard
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When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant…
— Mary Pickford
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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are…
— Walter Benjamin
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Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs,…
— John Edgar Wideman
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I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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