Forgotten Quotes
1912 Forgotten quotes by 1350 unique authors
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Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from…
— David M. Brown
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When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and…
— Fernando Pessoa
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All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on…
— V. S. Pritchett
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life -…
— Ellen Glasgow
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The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... but he…
— William Graham Sumner
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Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see…
— Richard Bach
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Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on…
— Richard Cobden
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Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go…
— Nancy Chodorow
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My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can…
— Jenny McCarthy
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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to…
— John Berger
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When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are…
— Zhuangzi
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I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find…
— Amy Lowell
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
— Alexander Pushkin
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The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it,…
— Isadora Duncan
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There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets…
— Unknown Author
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The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.
— Unknown Author
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Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when…
— M. J. Ryan
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet.…
— Christopher Cokinos
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Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown…
— Unknown Author
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Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style…
— Debby Applegate
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Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.
— Sarah Winman
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When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly…
— Miguel Syjuco
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
— Edmund Burke
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