We Forget Quotes

339 quotes by 289 authors

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the… — Nhat Hanh
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered… — Joan Didion
Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or… — Carleton Young
We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall. — Robert Graves
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward… — Gary Wolf
To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget. — Jostein Gaarder
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do.… — Natasha Trethewey
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress… — Ann Voskamp
As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and… — Corey Taylor
The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in… — Shari Arison
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when… — Jill Lepore
We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they… — Enrico Colantoni
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. — Eskinder Nega
You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every… — Nicole Ari Parker
We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and… — Estelle
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and… — Jules Verne
It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we… — Colman Domingo
We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were. — Karen Maitland
The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings… — Richard Carlson
We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words… — Frances Wright

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