Forgotten Quotes - Page 9

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.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is 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.

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

The Declaration [of Independence] was a committee report, and [Tomas] Jefferson was simply the draftsman. [John] Adams's crucial role in bringing about independence in the Continental Congress has tended to get forgotten.

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.

So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

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.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

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

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.