Remembering Quotes - page 3

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical. (Idries Shah)
When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. View quote
Ann Brashares
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting. View quote
Ann Brashares
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot. View quote
Ann Brashares
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment. View quote
Jasmine Guy
Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free. View quote
Leonard Peltier
But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else-the cold and where he'd go in it-was outside, for a while anyway. View quote
Raymond Carver
People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity. View quote
Brendon Burchard
Take without forgetting, and give without remembering. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think. View quote
Christian Marclay
In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice. (Doc Hastings)
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like. View quote
Harrison Schmitt
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more. View quote
Jody Watley
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. View quote
Jack Prelutsky
I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am! View quote
Judith Guest
When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things. View quote
Lisel Mueller
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me. View quote
Lara St. John
I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise. View quote
Padma Lakshmi
Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. View quote
Paul Greengrass
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them. (Paul Merton)
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. View quote
Queen Elizabeth II
So the two of them went to London by the early morning train. 'Let's surprise her,' said Nigel, but Cedric telephoned first, wryly remembering the story of the pedantic adulterer - 'My dear, it is I who am surprised; you are astounded. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. View quote
William Hazlitt
I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I'd never been your lover. View quote
Leonard Cohen