Forgotten famous quotes
05-20-2025
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QUOTES BOUQUET: The Brightest Future Will Always Be Based On A Forgotten Past...
-- Adnan -
We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll -
We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
-- Alex Garland -
If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day,
-- Alexander Payne -
The best memories are those which we have forgotten.
-- Alfred Capus -
Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.
-- Alison Croggon -
Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
-- Alvin Dark -
What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
-- Amish Tripathi -
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
-- Andrew Greeley -
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.
-- Andrew Ross Sorkin -
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
-- Anita Brookner -
It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
-- Anita Diament -
I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.
-- Anne Truitt -
If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette
-- Antonia Fraser -
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
-- Arthur Erickson -
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
-- Arthur Machen -
You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
-- Atom Egoyan -
Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
-- Barbara Johnson -
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
-- Barry Goldwater -
I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
-- Bill Viola -
I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.
-- Bob Hoskins -
I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten,
-- Bob Kaufman -
I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.
-- Bradley Cooper -
I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
-- Bruce Lee -
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
-- Cameron Mackintosh -
Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
-- Carl Jung -
The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood
-- Carl Sagan -
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.
-- Chad Kultgen -
What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.
-- Charles Bowden -
We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.
-- Chris Hedges -
New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.
-- Chris Lytle -
Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten.
-- Chris Sanders -
Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.
-- Christian Dior -
Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please their seller. The interest of the buyer is forgotten
-- Claude C. Hopkins -
I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.
-- Claudia Rankine -
One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.
-- Dan Brown -
Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.
-- Darren Shan -
There's a richness in older music that's been forgotten.
-- Dave Soldier -
We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.
-- David Agus -
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.
-- David Bentley Hart -
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.
-- Dion Fortune -
I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
-- Djuna Barnes -
He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.
-- Douglas Preston -
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.
-- Edward Ruscha -
To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.
-- Elin Hilderbrand -
What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
-- Eric Bogosian -
If you do something extraordinary for your customer you will never be forgotten. Customer service heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
-- Eric Lander -
Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.
-- Etienne de La Boetie -
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
-- Evan Esar -
It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.
-- Eve Babitz -
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
-- Ezra Stiles -
When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
-- Fantasia Barrino -
All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
-- Frances Perkins -
What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.
-- Francois Mauriac -
Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
-- Gaston Bachelard -
The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
-- Georg Trakl -
Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten
-- George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell -
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
-- George Eliot -
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
-- George Eliot -
Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.
-- George Lucas -
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
-- George Orwell -
Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.
-- George R. R. Martin -
Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.
-- Giorgio Moroder -
The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.
-- Glen Drake -
The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.
-- Greg McKeown -
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.
-- Grover Cleveland -
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
-- H. Rider Haggard -
The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.
-- Hannah Arendt -
I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.
-- Harry Connick, Jr. -
What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?
-- Haruki Murakami -
What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.
-- Henri Nouwen -
The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
-- Henry Clay -
Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.
-- Henry Hazlitt -
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.
-- Henry Parry Liddon -
The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.
-- Henry Royce -
I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction.
-- Herbert Schiller -
Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.
-- Hermann Ebbinghaus
