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Quotes About Forget

You are, after all, a marquess. I sometimes forget that I am such an exalted personage, he said. I suppose that is the reason you are marrying me, Diana, is it? So that you may be a marchioness? Yes, she said. You mean you thought there might be some other reason?
~ Mary Balogh
For all of memory's power to yank us back into an overwhelming past, it can also fail big time—both short-term (the lost vehicle in a parking lot, the name at the tip of your tongue) and long-term (we made out in high school?).
~ Mary Karr
Memory: a golden bowl, or a basement without light. For which reason the nightmare comes with its painful story and says: you need to know this. Some memories I would give anything to forget. Others I would not give up upon the point of death, they are the bright hawks of my life.
~ Mary Oliver
Times change, and people change with the times—the wise ones do. Wisdom lies in knowing when to remember and when to forget. Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.
~ Ayn Rand
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon's bill. Or both. It can help a person remember or forget.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
there are no crows in the desert. What appear to be crows are ravens. You must examine the crow, however, before you can understand the raven. To forget the crow completely, as some have tried to do, would be like trying to understand the one who stayed without talking to the one who left. It is important to make note of who has left the desert.
~ Barry Lopez
sitting in the booth and I get the same result. Either his battery is dead—it happens fast on flights if you forget to put it on airplane mode or to turn it off—or his phone was off. Perhaps
~ Steve Martini
But it's in the nature of progress that it erases its tracks, and its champions fixate on the remaining injustices and forget how far we have come.
~ Steven Pinker
When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
~ Philip James Bailey
When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
~ Bill Walton
Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words
~ William Faulkner
Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
~ Bob Goff
Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason.
~ Angela Bassett
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?
~ William Wordsworth
There's a lot of true things that happen in our life. I think we see them at the very moment they happen too, then we try to forget about them.
~ Jonis Agee
Leer siempre la había relajado. Era un privilegio. Sumergirse en una buena novela equivalía a penetrar en otro mundo, olvidar, sentir, experimentar emociones únicas.
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Yo soy quien libre me vi, yo, quien pudiera olvidaros: yo soy el que, por amaros, estoy, desque os conocí, sin Dios y sin vos y mí.
~ Jorge Manrique
Uyuyal?m. ?nsan uyudu mu her ?eyi unutur.
~ José Mauro de Vasconcelos
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I mostly needed the liquor to forget those days when the job was a calling rather than a burden
~ Joseph Nassise
Jen's been hiding the sugary cereals behind the granola, so I forget we have them. It's not a very nice thing to do. Jen likes the granola that feels like crackling leaves. I like cereal with taste as opposed to feelings.
~ Erynn Mangum
To live is to suffer, to live is to sweat, to live is an ache you can't fucking forget. To live is to yearn, to live is to burn, to live is to fucking screw up and wait for the fate to turn.
~ Etgar Keret