“The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.” — Julien Smith Copy Share Image
Never go through the things you've been through in your past, it's called a past for a reason. Be wise enough to… — Surgeo Bell Copy Share Image
Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way. — Joseph A. Califano, Jr Copy Share Image
People come & go all the time. Sometimes we have to leave a few people in the past just to successfully push… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Anyway, this huge Lena Dunham interview in Playboy. It felt like a shifting, of some kind. This new female archetype - this… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
I think people got this idea that I wanted to be a star. Managers of the past don't have any kind of… — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the… — James Laver Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we have to forget what's happened in the past, appreciate what we still have and look forward to what's coming in… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able… — Terrence Trammell Copy Share Image
I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood… — Gong Li Copy Share Image
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge." We're trying to find evidence… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about… — Virginia C. Andrews Copy Share Image
It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The moment we're born they try to make us cry, and sometimes it seems as though they never stop. Most of us… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
We live in a gender-biased world. I know we have a lot. But I do know that this history we're making, when… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
In the past, the biggest mistake I've made has been trying to treat election night like the first and last time anyone… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
I like complex characters. I've been very, very lucky to portray, in these past three years, characters that are strong and fragile… — Moran Atias Copy Share Image
We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it… — Eamon Duffy Copy Share Image
..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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