What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
We romanticize the past with an illusion that we'd know how we'd fit. — Robin Weigert Copy Share Image
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it. — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd… — George Best Copy Share Image
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past… — Carlos Carvalhal Copy Share Image
Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to be alone in order to reflect on life. Take time out to take care of yourself. You deserve… — Robert Tew Copy Share Image
All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle.… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls. — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating… — John Walters Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was… — LaToya London Copy Share Image
I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of… — Morris West Copy Share Image
