I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct,… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Our past makes us the people we are today, and forgetting is the last thing I want to do. It makes you… — Alexandria Bishop Copy Share Image
The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We have a moral obligation to raise awareness and educate those around us so we can create a world where human trafficking… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Everyone finds their little ways of getting past bad moments and everyone has them, it's football. We get the good moments and… — John Stones Copy Share Image
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for… — Martial Copy Share Image
You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say, And cast your words away upon the waves. Sail them… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
These tenses-past, present and future-are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. That which is no longer before… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world -… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I decided to not be so dismissive of my music in favor of my acting. Acting has been such a consistent thing… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
In the past years, I got in a lot of foul trouble because I was out of position, or because I was… — Derrick Favors Copy Share Image
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present.… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Always live your life with one dream to fulfill. No matter how many of your dreams you have realized in the past,… — Sara Henderson Copy Share Image
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the… — Dee Dee Ramone Copy Share Image
Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are… — Greg Plitt Copy Share Image
Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply there , never to change, and in its… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
