I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
“Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces… — Mary Lasswell Copy Share Image
“On these pages are ruminations on identity past and present. The key to a coorie life is right in front of us… — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“It's all history out there, Clemens. Your history, my history. You and me, boy, not dates and things. You and me. That's… — David Wiseman Copy Share Image
I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“I love metaphors and she has come up with the idea of lighting candles to symbolize my past, present, and future. My… — Jaycee Dugard Copy Share Image
“The historian Burns once wrote, “To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“Do you know where the past and the present intersect?" Jac asked him. "Where?" "In your mind, only. It's the only point.… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
“He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“He cupped my face between his hands. "Is it because Mac’s good looking to a fault, damned bastard or because I’m a… — Beth Mikell Copy Share Image
“But it’s bells at twenty-seven thousand feet as the plane breaks into the clear again, as its motion steadies again; it is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What Kant took to be the necessary schemata of reality,' says a modern Freudian, 'are really only the necessary schemata of repression.'… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“If one looks at modern society, it is obvious that in order to live, the great majority of people are forced to… — Gilles Dauvé Copy Share Image
“ Invitation to Eternity Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid, Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me Through the valley-depths… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“The first step in retracing our way to health is to abandon our attachment to what is called positive thinking. Too many… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
