“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Everyday we are given the chance to make our life better; what we did yesterday has already made our life better today… — Nghi Lam Copy Share Image
“Whether we’re searching for new dreams or rediscovering old ones, we can’t move forward without looking to the past. It’s the only… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Not every relationship is designed for a lifetime, and that's okay. Instead of dwelling on the 'whys' of the past, channel your… — Carson Anekeya Copy Share Image
Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Everytime I see you I think about our past. Nothing in this world would make me go back. I never thought that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I give and I give, barely ever taking back. I try and try, but I'm never moving forward with the right amount… — Deborah Macpherson Copy Share Image
The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The word 'America' probably didn't appear in the Persian language until the end of the 18th century - but then with a… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury… — Plato Copy Share Image
Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or do anything, not to turn back, or stop… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone… — Greg Norman Copy Share Image
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present… — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
I'd realized then just how strong our connection was, how perfectly we understood each other. I'd been skeptical about people being soul… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Copy Share Image
I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...standing on the edge of something much too deep...funny how I feel so much but cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to… — Sammy Cahn Copy Share Image
In the past, rulers led their troops into battle and, even in peacetime, called themselves fathers of their people. And modern politics… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, “I don’t think I would have made it past the audition,Yelena. I… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Old models of development simply seek to lure business with substantial tax breaks and then hope (and pray) that economic benefits will… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . .… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
In the past I faced assassination attempts. I faced harassment, intimidation and prison due to my bold stand on this issue. But… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
“You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
