Quotes for All
That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution. Ezra Pound
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his … Read more
Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.” – ‘Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We … Read more
We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let’s drink up and forget it. Eugene O’Neill
If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are. Errol Flynn
About 20 years ago, I had a dream in which somebody sang one of the most beautiful melodies I’d ever heard, and gave it to me, and warned me not to forget it. Of course, I did forget it by the time I had got out of bed. Now as precaution, my phone is overloaded … Read more
Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they … Read more
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
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one’s individual distinctness in a compact collective whole. Eric Hoffer
Most people in the Middle East at the moment, even if they are totally open-minded about possible peace, nobody does anything. It’s an age of indifference in a way. It’s like: OK, terrible things are happening here, terrible things are happening there… forget it. We’ll keep on going for our own benefit. Eran Riklis