Top 100 Forgets Quotes
#1. How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
#2. Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'
Kristian Bush
#4. The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.
Swami Vivekananda
#5. You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.
Lloyd Jones
#6. I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.
Geraldine Brooks
#7. Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
Stephen Spender
#8. The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.
George W. S. Trow
#9. The hard time is when people remembers you, because you need to be with them and its easy when they forgets you.
Nutan Bajracharya
#10. Never fear the weapon, only the man wielding it. Focus on your opponent while he focuses on his knife or saber or pistol. He invests his power in the weapon but forgets the rest of his body.
Dan Millman
#11. We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.
Studs Terkel
#12. History forgets the names of those people that cannot recognize times and seasons but it always remembers the names of those people that, by knowing God's time, stand in the gap for countries and nations.
Sunday Adelaja
#13. Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
Ezra Pound
#14. no kid ever truly forgets when they've experienced neglect, abuse, and heartbreak.
Michael Oher
#15. Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.
Dave Eggers
#16. A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude.
Jacques Maritain
#17. The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry.
Mark Lawrence
#18. We are metered only by our own machines,
while the book is a clock that forgets her machanics.
Amy King
#19. A person never forgets the landscape of their childhood'.
Kate Morton
#20. book brings her comfort still, now soothing different pains, a literary safety blanket Alba can wrap around her fingers and hold until she forgets all the things she wants to forget. Few other novels have been able to offer similar protection against poisoned memories,
Menna Van Praag
#21. She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.
George R R Martin
#22. Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust
#23. Ignore the world when it forgets to tell you that you are beautiful...A goddess needs no reminding...
Virginia Alison
#24. A woman is perturbed by what a man forgets
a man by what a woman remembers.
Arch Ward
#25. A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
Timothy Leary
#26. You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.
Kevin DeYoung
#27. Sometimes one forgets that not everyone in this world is a bastard.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#28. The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.
Sai Baba
#29. Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Jacques Prevert
#30. Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work ...
Marie Bashkirtseff
#31. Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands all alone.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.
William Alexander
#32. Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong if it forgets that this freedom can only be experienced within the discipline of social responsibility.
Paul Hawken
#33. Follow your dreams, Bailey," she says. "Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself." Bailey
Erin Morgenstern
#34. He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend.
Abigail Thomas
#35. The mind forgets pain, the physical sensation of pain. It doesn't forget terror.
Kate Griffin
#36. No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.
Richard Yates
#37. The man of principle never forgets what he is, because of what others are.
Bohdi Sanders
#38. Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.
Robert Kennedy
#39. We are afraid to allow ourselves to blossom fully because of the general disapproval that fills our air whenever a 'little lady' forgets her place.
Marianne Williamson
#40. There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain and he forgets to live.
Jean De La Bruyere
#41. Perhaps a novelist has a greater ability to forget than other men
he has to forget or become sterile. What he forgets is the compost of the imagination.
Graham Greene
#42. Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
Jean De La Bruyere
#43. Bug spray." Mosquitoes never bother me, but apparently they eat Tucker alive if he forgets bug spray. So I wear it for solidarity. "All the kids wear
it," I explain to Mom. "They say the mosquito is the Wyoming state bird.
Cynthia Hand
#44. In this world," Franny once observed, "just as you're trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
John Irving
#45. There are some things a girl never forgets, Ry. And one of those is a kiss from the right guy.
Julie James
#46. Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
#47. What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
Robert Browning
#48. When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.
Billy Graham
#49. Because time passes, and memories fade, but a beating heart never truly forgets anything. Never.
J.M. Darhower
#50. There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.
Nik Wallenda
#52. A man who forgets his past and allows the flame of the things he loves to be extinguished has no future.
T.J. Fisher
#53. I'm going to find Julie and I'll ground her ass until she forgets what the sun looks like, and then I'll go over to that school and pull their legs out.
Ilona Andrews
#54. One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Denis Diderot
#55. Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Robert Trout
#56. The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.
George Stillman Hillard
#57. Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Pat Carroll
#58. See how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions, but when he recovers from wounds he forgets the torments, and when he is well fed he is joyous in the light of day.
Arthur Lynch
#60. I am a face that people forget. But I am also a brain that forgets little.
Durjoy Datta
#61. The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
Carlos Fuentes
#62. The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.
Herbert Ratner
#63. When the heart is happy it forgets to grow old.
Jeannie Gunn
#64. The more one forgets one's own self, the more human the person becomes.
Viktor E. Frankl
#65. Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.
Stephen Spender
#66. Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.
Elvis Costello
#67. Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#68. Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
Gavin Rossdale
#69. Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.
Ellen Potter
#70. She likes herself, yet others hates / For that which in herself she prizes; And, while she laughs at them, forgets / She is the thing that she despises.
William Congreve
#71. A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
David McCullough
#72. 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.
Anonymous
#74. If you love someone your heart will always remember them. Even if the mind doesn't, the heart never forgets.
Alexandra Potter
#75. If the mind, which rules the body, ever forgets itself so far as to trample upon its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite its oppressor.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#76. He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.
Donald Miller
#77. This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no ... love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us.
Jackson Pearce
#78. And whenever he's busy trying to be all he can be, he forgets about trying to be all we can be.
Paul Pearsall
#79. Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
Joyce Carol Oates
#80. Once they were the same age. Now Leah is aging in dog years. Her thirty-five is seven times his, and seven times more important, so important he has to keep reminding her of the numbers, in case she forgets.
Zadie Smith
#81. When you change the world, the world forgets who did it, because the one doing it has now blended with his own result.
Robin Sacredfire
#82. Faerie music is the wind", he says, "and their movement is the play of shadow cast by moonlight, or starlight, or no light at all. Faerie lives like a ghost beside us, but only the city remembers. But then the city never forgets anything.
Charles De Lint
#83. Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.
Russell Sherman
#84. The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#85. The balance-of-payments theory forgets that the volume of foreign trade is completely dependent upon prices; that neither exportation nor importation can occur if there are no differences in prices to make trade profitable.
Ludwig Von Mises
#86. Till the chit is in blissful state, the world does not come in one's remembrance (one forgets the world till that time).
Dada Bhagwan
#87. The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
Langston Hughes
#88. The only person can love you in the world is Your mother (real)
She forgets with in seconds the bad behavior you did wtih her, she comes backs again with love!
Akshay Me
#89. Your father is only your father
until one of you forgets. Like how the spine
won't remember its wings
no matter how many times our knees
kiss the pavement. Ocean,
are you listening? The most beautiful part
of your body is wherever
your mother's shadow falls.
Ocean Vuong
#91. The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
Andre Gide
#92. From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Rabindranath Tagore
#93. 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.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#94. Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.
Stieg Larsson
#95. The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Rebecca West
#96. The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
Georges Rouault
#97. Prabhupada said, "Whatever service one does for Krishna, Krishna never forgets! Krishna will always remembers that service, however insignificant. Even if he comes to the temple and he turns one screw for Krishna, Krishna will never forget."
Romapada Swami
#98. The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death.
Ahmadou Kourouma
#99. My fingers running through her hair, she forgets all her problems.
- Let's Get Lost
Bandile M. Matsenjwa
#100. Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.
Nuno Oliveira
