“Up in the garret, where Jo's unquiet wanderings ended, stood four little wooden chests in a row, each marked with its owner's… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“Sarah’. She had thought they had thrown that bit of history into the trash, and the trash into the incinerator. But apparently… — Shweta Ganesh Kumar Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it,… — Lili Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident -… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In a typical martial arts film, you have a hero shot: a close-up tight angle of the hero looking past the camera,… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
'The UnAmericans' is a compassionate and brilliantly rendered debut - and for a book set largely in the past, these stories feel… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a… — Israel Rosenfield Copy Share Image
We should be inspired by our past and be confident about our future. We should not harvest negative feelings from our own… — Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a… — Adrienne Mayor Copy Share Image
While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The person who will decide whether or not there will be war or peace is Saddam Hussein, and all he has to… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual,… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
The past is like an old friend who holds your hand and takes you to the familiar places that live in your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
