Nayantara Sahgal Quotes
For societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember.
Nayantara Sahgal
Quotes to Explore
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. Milne
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
Queen Elizabeth II
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I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.
Ed Gamble
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Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.
Carla Hall
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Samuel Butler
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
Carl Orff
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This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.
Olivia Colman
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Saint Basil
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'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
Ira Sachs
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There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
Beatrice Wood
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Iran humiliated the United States with the capture of our 10 sailors. Horrible pictures & images. We are weak. I will NOT forget!
Donald Trump
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I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.
Frances O'Grady
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He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
Gavin Newsom
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Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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For societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember.
Nayantara Sahgal
