We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We may not like some of the things that Donald Trump says, and I certainly don't like some of the things that… — Nigel Evans Copy Share Image
People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future;… — Gloria Whelan Copy Share Image
We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
“Before I can say I am , I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I dreamed... in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
Bangladesh, despite producing big upsets in the past, doesn't have the art of beating big teams consistently. — Sourav Ganguly Copy Share Image
There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of… — Christopher Tunnard Copy Share Image
Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the past, due to faulty economic policies like freight equalisation, resource-rich states like Odisha have suffered from the discriminatory policies of… — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“As I write this, we are in an especially divisive era in American politics. There are questions about who holds power, who… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image