We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.
Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day.
People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.
I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.
Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.
Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.
Dream as big as you desire, but don't forget to wake yourself from it with some consistent effective actions.
No matter what your circumstances are, never for a second forget that you solely owe yourself the gift of abundant success and happiness.
But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.
You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
Success makes tyrants of most of the humankind; making us forget basic courtesy, and being kind.
