Quotes with forget

  • There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
  • I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
  • Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
  • It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
  • One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
  • I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
  • I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
  • The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
  • People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
  • We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
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  • Aeschylus And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Groucho Marx I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • G. Randolf Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Albert Einstein Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Confucius I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Maya Angelou I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bill Bryson We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Joseph Addison Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher ''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Samuel Butler A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Branch Rickey A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Cliff Fadiman A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Harry Mathews A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Baltasar Gracian A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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