Forget It Quotes

• The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

  Bill W. Clayton

  Relationship, Hurt, Political

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• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

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• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Herbert V. Prochnow (1994). “1000 Stories and Illustrations for All Occasions”, Baker Publishing Group

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• A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Forget, Lost

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Mistake, Self

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• "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Men, Forever

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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• And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Past, Years, Would Be

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• The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Poverty, Honest, Never Forget

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• Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Wish, Criminal Mind

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• No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it's just the best gift there is. And it's free.

  Eliza Dushku

  Stories, Matter, Messages

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• I've been down this road before and yeah I skidded but forget it

  Drake

  Humble, Forget, Yeah

  Song: Fall For Your Type, Album: Heartbreak Drake 2K11: The 2nd Semester

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• He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

  Demosthenes

  Kindness, Men, Different

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• For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.

  Edmund White

  Real, Believe, Home

  1980 States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, ch.5.

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• The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Stars, Fall, Heart

  Georgia Douglas Johnson, “The Heart Of A Woman”

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• I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

  Chris Christie

  Leadership, Work, Reality

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• Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Pain, Bodybuilding, Champion

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• My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.

  Robert K. G. Temple

  Risk, Forget, Relative

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• Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

  Diane Keaton

  Children, Believe, Parenting

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• After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

  David Cameron

  Wall, Healing, Cities

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". Bloomberg speech, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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• We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Thinking, Intelligent, Giving

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• Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

  Eric Liu

  Rights, Citizenship, Forget

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• Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

  John Irving

  Memories, Thinking, Monsters

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.46, Random House

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• Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.

  David Letterman

  Spring, Fall, Bed

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