Forgotten Quotes - Page 36

• We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

  Anne Enright

  Art, Small Gestures, Body

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.128, Random House

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• But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Morning, Hands, Looks

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• When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we spend together at the kitchen table, the more how-to books appear in the stores and on our bookshelves. But reading such books is a very different thing than listening to someone' s lived experience. Because we have stopped listening to each other we may even have forgotten how to listen, stopped learning how to recognize meaning and fill ourselves from the ordinary events of our lives. We have become solitary; readers and watchers rather than sharers and participants.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Book, Reading, Kitchen

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Penguin

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• Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Mean, Ends

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.71, Crown Business

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• I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

  Miriam Makeba

  One Day, Looks, Obstacles

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• Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.

  William Peter Blatty

  Eye, Men, Sun

  William Peter Blatty (2011). “The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

  Washington Irving

  Age, Library, Buckets

  Washington Irving (2009). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”, p.109, Modern Library

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• I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Language, Ruling

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• Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

  James Bryant Conant

  Has Beens, Left

  Diary as freshman at Harvard College (1910 - 1911)

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• Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Simple, People

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• And all of a sudden, all of my sins came before me. Everything I had ever done wrong that I had forgotten about years ago came into my mind. And I prayed, Lord, forgive me, may the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse me from all of my sins... not because of my good works or because of all the things I have tried to do, but because the Lord had forgiven me.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Blood, Years

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• 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.

  Tom Daschle

  Country, Icons, America

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• I kind of hate to be the voice of doom, but I just can't see how prices can't go down. I think people have actually forgotten that property prices can decrease. There's this feeling that they just won't fall, but, of course, that's not true.

  Sarah Beeny

  Hate, Fall, Thinking

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• While [the] precious, vital message [of the Restoration] has been proclaimed across the world, Satan has been most effective in causing people to ignore it or to look in the wrong places for it. The vast majority of Father's children have not only forgotten their Father in Heaven and the purpose of mortal life, but they rarely even think of Him nor ponder for what purpose they are here in mortality. They have been led to be absorbed by mundane things that distract them from the essential ones. Don't you make that mistake.

  Richard G. Scott

  Children, Father, Mistake

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• We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

  Dee Hock

  Struggle, Data, Understanding

  Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.224, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Memories, Writing, Men

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• Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Patience, Knowledge, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jul 27, 2011

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• The determination in your heroic effort
  Will permeate your mind and heart
  Even after your success or failure
  Is long forgotten.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Determination, Heart, Long

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• We have forgotten how to blush

  Paul Washer

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• It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Men, Thinking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles.

  Luce Irigaray

  Ocean, Men, Land

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• Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

  James Rollins

  Fall, Ebb And Flow, Age

  James Rollins (2014). “The 6th Extinction: A Sigma Force Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

  Frances Perkins

  Common, Millions

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

  Tony Abbott

  Commitment, Cost Of Living, Australia

  "Update 8PM Abbot Budget reply speech". "PM" with Linda Mottram, www.abc.net.au. May 12, 2011.

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• Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten

  L. J. Smith

  Long, Dies

  L.J. Smith (2010). “The Forbidden Game: The Hunter; The Chase; The Kill”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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