Best 434 quotes in «forgotten quotes» category

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

The best memories are those which we have forgotten.

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...

The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely obliterated so that we could believe that we were living on virgin soil.

The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.

The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious... Because you have learned it so well you have forgotten it.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be.

There is no last word in research, and that includes climate research. It's never the truth that scientists offer, but only our best possible approximation of reality. But that often gets forgotten in the way the public perceives and describes our work.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

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 is not because of all the interesting things we have learned over the past few centuries, but because of all the vital things we have forgotten.

There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

There's a substantial portion of my recorded repertoire that was learned for the recording sessions, and then basically forgotten. I wouldn't say it's the majority, but it's a fairly good chunk of it.

There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.

There's a richness in older music that's been forgotten.

There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel.

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.

The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.

The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.