The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I admire about Hillary: Every time I am going to walk away from her candidacy, I think, she has absorbed more hate… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I've voted in a Republican primary in the past. That's something unique to Texas and a handful of other states, that we… — MJ Hegar Copy Share Image
None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Refugees, especially in their early years, are still caught up in the experience that made them refugees. And they're much more melancholic.… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
“They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment… The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One of the ways we reflect God's love and bring him glory is to accept each other just as he accepts us.… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
People have seen the Shiv Sena and the BJP for the past 30 years. For 25 years, we stood united, there was… — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Al's red eyes slid past me to Pierce. "Play?" he said, his voice dripping with interest. "Gordian Nathaniel Pierce's quirks are legendary.… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
I first remember Wayne Rooney from a game at Old Trafford in 2002 when he came on as a late substitute for… — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a… — Noeleen Heyzer Copy Share Image
But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow. “It’s not like Magnus’s party,” Isabelle… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think, in the past, being brave - being powerful, being strong - were qualities that people associated with being masculine. And… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
What you have as a result of past policies is that German entrepreneurs go outside of Germany for many of their activities.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging.… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Americans are guaranteed the constitutional right to legal abortion in Roe v. Wade, and it's past time for Republicans to stop using… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're… — Richard Petty Copy Share Image
