Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any… — Plautus Copy Share Image
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“A poet's marriage to his time is a forced marriage. A marriage of which - as of any suffered violence - he… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
At the present day I become a member of the Masonic order I see the wealth and power they possess the influence… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
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“ Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
“White supremacy is the societal excrement that fertilizes racial disparities in America. It distorts the reality of historical and present day factors… — James A. Barlow Copy Share Image
A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
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For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
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There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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![“I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman. [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus, Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]” quote by Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8bf/plautus-1263_age_i-know-that-we-women-are-all-justly-acco_2806455.jpg)
![“[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/134/aristotle-78_add_the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudenc_3029435.png)
![“A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.Our girls [Paper Girls] are now dealing with what their futures look like, and reflecting on what they hoped the present day versions might be like.” quote by Cliff Chiang](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2a2/cliff-chiang-14642_girl_a-lot-of-times-we-look-at-the-past-as-so_1613192.jpg)
