Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run,… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes.… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of… — Christopher Tunnard Copy Share Image
Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some… — Bo Bice Copy Share Image
“It was as though each of us—in separate and distinct ways—had been plunged back into the past. Fragments of old memories were… — Karen Perry Copy Share Image
“For as we stretch & strain to look through the various windows into the past, we do not merely see a bygone… — Malcolm Margolin Copy Share Image
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in… — David Brin Copy Share Image
He stands behind me and gives me little pushes. We sit there in silence watching the guys goof off and Heath take… — Jade Copy Share Image
Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
If you follow a trend, by the time it is released it will sound like the same regurgitated music that the public… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now… — Bill Nelson Copy Share Image
I think it's not an easy task because there's not enough Latino writers that are being given opportunities to write things -… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
What has happened to protesters in the past was that, basically, the government in 2012 put an end to a series of… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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Appreciation is not an otherworldly or good treat which we may take or push away as per the minute's impulses, and in… — Noel 'Razor' Smith Copy Share Image
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