Best 434 quotes in «forgotten quotes» category

I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot.

I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.

It doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere.

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.

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 them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten.

It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.

It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.

It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.

I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.

It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten.

I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.

Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.

Judenhass is endlessly disturbing, often unpleasant and incessantly horrifying in its stark coldness. The quotes should never be forgotten or made light of. It is why all people of good will say, 'Never again.'

Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.

Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.