What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cale is my signature character in the Forgotten Realms. The most popular character I've written. He's a thief, an assassin, and eventually,… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I'm not an addict and I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is… — Rob Ford 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
Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our… — Tony Levin Copy Share Image
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I like as much time as I can get and I'll do whatever I think is helpful to prepare for a role.… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited… — Shirley M. Tilghman Copy Share Image
My parents, they never go see anything - but when the movie came out, they went to every theater in L.A. that… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
Look what the American people did with the comprehensive immigration bill. That was all lined up to get past and the American… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Over the past three decades, markets and market thinking have been reaching into spheres of life traditionally governed by non-market norms. As… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
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Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
As I learned from chapters past, it's important to try and stay in the chapter that you're in, and enjoy it while… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer,… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I am a supporter of much of the Arab Spring, as a matter of indigenous self-determination. So, I see the United States'… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued… — John Kador Copy Share Image
The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is maybe a danger of dwelling on the past, but I think that's far less dangerous than moving forward without learning… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject,… — Bernard Baruch 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
Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
He was an amazing actor and could mimic anybody's voice. My sister Katrine was walking past one day and could hear our… — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
