Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'd be so excited to plan a wedding! I've been thinking that if I make friends with Louisa Johnson, because we get… — Charlotte Crosby Copy Share Image
When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone.… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
If you go into a police station and report a burglary the first question is not: 'Are you telling the truth?' If… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I would like to say, historically, from the very beginning, our people have time and again expressed the need for people to… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I need some space." "Because of my past?" "No, because of mine. When I'm around you I feel like I'm falling. I… — Anna McPartlin Copy Share Image
Critical Race Theory is a warped ideology that seeks to divide Americans and relitigate the sins of the past by pinning White… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
That was always a dream of mine to play division one basketball. Not knowing that I wasn't going to get the opportunity… — John Starks Copy Share Image
There's a reason nationalists build walls, denigrate foreigners, and denounce immigrants: Because our people are better than those people. There's a reason… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
A lot of times, in other films in the past, you see some drag roles that make you go, 'OK we're the… — Shangela Copy Share Image
I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad,… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath… Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck. "Your injury. Let us tend to it." He… — David Wong Copy Share Image
If I like a person, I don't have any mask/filter. I will open up a lot. I had hurt myself in the… — Varun Tej Copy Share Image
“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing.… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Maybe Italians are a bit less restrained: they can be less rigid and sometimes they stray a little in their ways of… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
