Forgotten Quotes

I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that.

I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I’d forgotten. I was toast. I was boyfriend roadkill.

I've forgotten more about music than I ever knew.

No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

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.

Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.

He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

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.

She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)

Forgotten history. You, however, are my present. (Varyk) Oh, goody. Do I have to wear a bow? (Fang)

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.

Sometimes things are better off forgotten.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

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.

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

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.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

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

The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.

They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

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.

The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.