#forge

Authority forgets a dying king. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#dying #forgets #king

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#forget #let us #me #much #recent

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. ↗

— Jack London

#beyond #cannot #comes #complete #ecstasy

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#brave #citizens #day #democratic #each

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#exaggerates #forgets #i #only #regard

This is..." "You completely forgot what day it is, didn't you?" "Eh?" "It's your birthday!!" "Huh... It is? Oh!" "Idiot! ↗

— Shizuru Seino

#love

Never," said Gregor. "I'll never get rid of you, no matter how hard I try." It was no longer an effort to say the words. "I love you." "I love you, too," said Luxa. After that there was nothing left to say. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#gregor #luxa #never-forget #love

The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones. ↗

— Billy Collins

#obedience

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. ↗

— Jean Froissart

#entered #forge #i #material #noble

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#forgetfulness #humor #poison #unhappiness #humor