I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
When I was 12 I had the chance with a past club I played for to go to Brighton, and we watched… — Edouard Mendy Copy Share Image
The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
I was a bit of a workaholic in the past and now I realize the importance of making room for what matters… — Guy Sebastian Copy Share Image
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Life Is Like A Permanent Pen. You Can Cross Out Your Past, But You Can't Erase It.. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I find myself whining, and I'm like, 'God, it's wet,' there will always be one guy who never got into the… — Gustaf Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I think we're on a journey....It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, as good as our previous experience may be, if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering, we can… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
For the past 20 years, the PAP has had a strong monopoly. However, prosperity has not flowed to all Singaporeans. — Tan Cheng Bock Copy Share Image
It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I am not in the camp of 'Russia has to be our enemy, and they have to be that way forever,' and… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for… — Allie X Copy Share Image
Memories are in the past, not to pull you backward but to push you forward to your dreams. Just Let them do ã — Islam Elnady Copy Share Image
I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie. — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it… — David Brin Copy Share Image
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows? — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
