Forgetting Quotes

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company.