E. M. Forster Quotes

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • More
  • Others

• My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
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  • Age
  • Military

• Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
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• I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.

  

  Young Thug
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  • You
  • Just Do It

• Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
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  • Process

• Nothing endures but personal qualities.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Live
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• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Remember
  • Death

• It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Space
  • Understand
  • Far

• Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • School
  • Understand

• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
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  • Audience
  • Look

• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
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  • First
  • Race

• I don't understand anything about America's culture.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Culture
  • Understand

• I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

  

  Edd Byrnes
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  • Star
  • Sunset

• I don't remember ever having finished a book.

  

  Bridget Hall
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• As for the minor characters, it seemed natural for each of them to have his good or bad moment in the life of the protagonists and then slip into the background, just as when we think back on our existence and, of the many people who entered the flow of our lives, remember almost nothing.

  

  Elena Ferrante
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  • Existence

• I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Writer

• We wait - it seems for minutes - looking at the night sky. Then, suddenly breaking the silence and making us start with alarm and fear... there is a savage, heart-rending, gurgling scream.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Fear

• Unless we remember we cannot understand.

  

  E. M. Forster
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