Forgotten Quotes - Page 39

• The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

  Tacitus

  Evil, Office, Deeds

  "Annales" (AD 117), III. 65,

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• I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

  Lloyd Bentsen

  Government, Eagles, Careers

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• This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

  Marion Woodman

  Grief, Joy, Body

  Marion Woodman (2001). “Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul”, p.49, Conari Press

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• It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

  Bill W.

  Spiritual, Religious, Acceptance

  Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing

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• To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

  Elin Hilderbrand

  Late

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• I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten.

  Jenny Colgan

  Sweet, Thinking, Love Is

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• The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

  K'naan

  Voice, People, World

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• Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.

  Chris Lytle

  Rookies, Management, Selling

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• The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

  Greg McKeown

  Leadership, Taken, Given

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• Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Longevity, Dies

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• The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.

  Michel de Certeau

  Practice, World, Able

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.97, Univ of California Press

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• Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts of beautiful country, pleasant camps, and happy campfires.

  Fred Bear

  Beautiful, Country, Memories

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• The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep America society cohesive. Asia can see it is not working.. In America itself, there is widespread crime and violence, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Integrity, Fall, Character

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• At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

  T.C. Boyle

  Prayer, Hands, Joy

  T.C. Boyle (1999). “T.C. Boyle Stories”, p.348, Penguin

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• Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that's the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I'm feeling good about this one. I really am.

  Andrew McMahon

  Commitment, Keys, Race

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• It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for or gone, transformed or altogether forgotten. Like time, hope can be so senseless. It can carry us up mountains or lie us in the quicksand. But like time, hope is unstoppable, inevitable, and blind. Sometimes we travel fast, hurdling towards the unknown, sometimes the unknown comes hurdling towards us while we watch time standing still.

  Andrew McMahon

  Lying, Past, Mountain

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• The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons is not because of all the interesting things we have learned over the past few centuries, but because of all the vital things we have forgotten.

  David Bentley Hart

  Past, Interesting, Incredibles

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• I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Lakes, Tree, Sacred

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• Emotions are lovely. Even if they fall to the negative for a time. The sun will rise again another day. The sadness perhaps never forgotten, but a new day enjoyed in another way. A way that could not have been but for the sadness’s existence.

  Anne Mallory

  Fall, Sadness, New Day

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• Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

  Ben Hecht

  Criticism, Dubious, News

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

  Ransom Riggs

  Mean, Laughing, Care

  Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.285, Quirk Books

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• Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope...now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into the visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.

  Dziga Vertov

  Taken, Eye, People

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• A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Heart, Years, Effort

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.

  Art Buchwald

  Real, Book, Years

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