Top 100 They Forget Quotes
#1. So, say, when they're out in their little boats and they hear voices in the night, they forget whatever destination they had in mind and they go tearing straight towards the sound, screaming their heads off.
Simon Spurrier
#2. I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.
Ashton Kutcher
#3. Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.
Frederick Lenz
#4. When economists base their models on their fantasies of an "economic man" motivated only by self-interest, they forget community
the all-important web of meaning we spin around each other
the inescapable context within which anything truly human has taken place.
Cacilda Jetha
#5. I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.
John Gutfreund
#6. Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.
M. K. Asante
#7. When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?
Michael J. Strauss
#8. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.
Walt Disney Company
#9. I am dealing with people with both sides. I see people who are liberating themselves but they want to forget the world. And I see people who want to liberate the world but they forget themselves. Neither is the way I want to go.
Tariq Ramadan
#10. People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.
Robert Riskin
#11. They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.
Geoffrey Wood
#12. They forget that government revenues derive from confiscation, rather than production.
Addison Wiggin
#13. The media treats fear like a one-night stand. They jump on it and then they leave the next day and they forget - remember the Alar Scare? Things - see, nobody even remembers Alar.
Greg Gutfeld
#14. In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.
Tim Burton
#15. They forget that the CIA is all about collecting information. Information for other people to act on. If you join the CIA expecting a life of laser guns, ju-jitsu and exotic STDs, bear in mind that your only contact with them may come through the pages of The Lancet and Popular Mechanics.
Jay Spencer Green
#16. Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don't want to ever forget.
Stephanie Perkins
#17. I think some girls get so caught up in the wedding part that they forget about the marriage part, and they end up bonded for life to the wrong person. It's not the wedding part that matters.
Wendy Wunder
#18. It's just as important to work on the little muscle groups as well as the big muscle groups. People, when they train, go to gyms. I call them 'nightclub bodies' - ginormous up top, and legs are little sticks. You see a lot of people, and they forget you can't leave the little muscles behind.
Misty May-Treanor
#19. Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.
Adam Young
#20. Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.
Walt Disney
#21. When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.
Jimmy Hoffa
#22. All great work - artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual - is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.
Walpola Rahula
#23. Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be men. They forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.
Jefferson Smith
#24. They know how to take tests and get A's but they don't know how to do this - yet. They forget the yet.
Carol S. Dweck
#25. I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
Patti Smith
#26. Rich men want to believe they deserve every penny they've got, so they forget what they owe to chance.
Leigh Bardugo
#27. Be careful in your relations with those in power; they draw you close or allow you to approach them only when they need you. They are your friends when your friendship is useful to them and affords them pleasure, but they forget you when you are in trouble.
Elie Wiesel quoting Rabban Gamliel
Elie Wiesel
#28. New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always ... Yes, gay is the word ... but frantic. I can't get used to it. They forget death, Basil; they forget death in New York.
William Dean Howells
#29. That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.
Ezra Pound
#30. I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story.
Tim Story
#31. Audiences don't care if you sing correctly. They care if they feel something. If they don't, they forget you. Emotional honesty creates loyalty and a lifelong connection above all else.
Jewel
#32. I think the biggest reason that actors are complete a-holes as soon as they become famous is because they forget that this a job. They think that it's about them, and it's not.
Jennifer Lawrence
#33. Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.
Isabel Allende
#34. Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.
George Jones
#35. People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.
Cristina Saralegui
#36. ...I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the failing of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young... and I seem to have forgoten, lately...
J.K. Rowling
#37. They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#38. The most frequent reason for unsuccessful advertising is advertisers who are so full of their own accomplishments (the world's best seed!) that they forget to tell us why we should buy (the world's best lawn!).
John Caples
#39. I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.
Big Sean
#40. Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.
Stanley Hauerwas
#41. Beginning authors often get in their own way ... They forget that they've been telling stories since they could talk. ... The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You've been doing this your whole life.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
#42. For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
Julia Cameron
#43. Mortals have become spoiled and ungracious, and fail to appreciate the things right around them. They forget that Christmas is about love, and God's perfect, selfless gift.
Cameo Renae
#44. People are so busy polishing their past, that they forget to paint their future.
Himanshu Vassanpal
#45. When people say "clean as a whistle", they forget that a whistle is full of spit.
George Carlin
#46. Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.
Frederick Lenz
#47. So many people accuse and mistreat others just because of their present state of life, as if life is just a one day journey, and they forget that the story line can change tomorrow!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. Christians cannot be so joined to this world that they forget who they serve.
Monica Johnson
#49. The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
Louise Otto-Peters
#50. The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.
Demi Moore
#51. I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.
Michel Gondry
#52. The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.
Curt Sachs
#53. It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.
Robert Jordan
#54. People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process.
Julia Cameron
#55. RVM Thoughts for Today -
People are so cautious about Life that they forget to enjoy it. They may follow all the rule of the world but in the Process, they forget to Live.
R.v.m.
#56. Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.
C.S. Lewis
#57. People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.
Joe Williams
#58. Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
Martin Luther
#59. When people are to busy to survive they forget to live.
Stephan Attia
#60. Engineers: they spend so much time solving physical problems and obeying physical rules, they forget that nonphysical phenomena obey rules every bit as strict. Tara
Max Gladstone
#61. Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
Ada Leverson
#62. Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#63. Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.
Edgard Varese
#64. The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
Jennifer Niven
#65. I've seen women come. They forget to look beautiful. They forget who they are. I want to see you when you lose yourself and all you know is my name.
C.D. Reiss
#66. Self discovery is the most empowering time of your life, you remember who you are and you become the best version of yourself but what they forget to tell you is, to get to a point of pleasure you must face the pain.
Nikki Rowe
#67. Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
Jim Butcher
#68. Most non-programmers don't think of plaintext like that. To them, text files feel like filling in tax forms for an angry robotic auditor that yells at them if they forget a single semicolon.
Robert Nystrom
#69. When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
Walter Mosley
#70. Everyone is an original, until they forget who they are to become someone else.
S.D. Lewis
#71. Teased
Sometimes
when I'm teased
I don't cry,
I go away.
When I come back
my brother and his friends
are doing something else.
I remember.
They forget.
Richard J. Margolis
#72. Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.
Frederic Bastiat
#73. In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.
Ray Lewis
#74. Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out
nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.
Buster Keaton
#75. The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.
Jim Butcher
#76. Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature
Ibn Taymiyyah
#77. It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.
IO Tillett Wright
#78. When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.
Donnie Yen
#79. People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid.
Irvine Welsh
#80. However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
Pliny The Younger
#81. There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom.
Gordon Dahlquist
#82. I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
Martin Luther
#83. Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
Keith Richards
#84. These men were conscious of the Fall, if they were conscious of nothing else; and the same is true of all heathen humanity. Those who have fallen may remember the fall, even when they forget the height. Some such tantalising blank or break in memory is at the back of all pagan sentiment.
G.K. Chesterton
#85. Other Afghans from American, or from Europe," Amra says, "they come and take picture of her. They take video. They make promises. Then they go home and show their families. LIke she is zoo animal. I allow it because I think maybe they will help. But they forget. I never hear from them.
Khaled Hosseini
#86. They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.
Velma Wallis
#87. The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.
Clarence H. Burns
#88. Men," she said as she took my arm and led me to the brightly lit room. "They forget we need to see the outcome of pain before we willingly put ourselves through it. How else would we suffer nine months to have a beautiful child? We already know we have guts.
Kim Harrison
#89. 808. Do not punish forgetfulness. ADHD children cannot hold rules, routines, and tasks in their minds. They forget everyday rules and tasks, even though they have been doing them for months or years. Every day is a new day in their minds, and they do not know what to do unless you tell them.
Susan Ashley
#90. Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating ... too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.
John Wooden
#91. Youth in our Sunday school class can repeat almost verbatim some obscure parable we dramatized last year, and yet they forget the core doctrinal statement we taught last week. Why is this? Why does story stick with us for so long?
Sarah Arthur
#92. I often wonder why, when governments and communities erect monuments to heroes, they forget to erect one to the honour of the Pioneer.
Frederick De La Fosse
#94. And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.
Nate Saint
#95. Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J.K. Rowling
#96. They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it.
Darren Shan
#97. A lot of people, sometimes they're so stuck on, 'I gotta get married, I gotta get married.' They forget that the really important thing is to have a healthy home, a healthy family, a healthy environment for your kids and to have everything going in a good, peaceful way.
Camila Alves
#98. There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.
Israel Zangwill
#99. Some people discard their childhood like an old hat.
They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid.
They used to be kids, then they became adults - but what are they now?
Only those who grow up but continue to be children are humans.
Erick Kastner
#100. Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.
Craig Brown
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