“History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I think in the past maybe I've thought about too many things other than just the fight right in front of me. — Jon Fitch Copy Share Image
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the… — Richard Dean Anderson Copy Share Image
I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
The past is filled with people who aren't traditionally thought of as fantastic singers singing these songs that capture people; songs like… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
“My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I wanted to lose weight when it was my time to lose weight, not because someone's calling me out for it. I've… — Khloe Kardashian Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key,… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I… — Kerri Walsh Copy Share Image