Of course, for me Naked Lunch was the big one, but I still believe I was right to pass on that. James… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I was told to leave the past in the past and move on with my life. I agree because I do not… — Nichole Copy Share Image
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all… — Allan Nevins Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
The people in your past have wasted enough of your time. How many more years of your life are you going to… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the… — Ildefonso Falcones Copy Share Image
I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Living in the rural South, you sometimes feel trapped, like you don't have any options. It grinds people down, and of course… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprah’s Book Club. You can take… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“As I faced each tragedy in my life, I learned to reach into the depth of my soul for strength and determination.… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
The union movement has achieved a huge amount in the past century or so. It has secured important rights at work, tackled… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
Live in the present, not the future, and certainly not the past. Never spend all the time regretting events that have already… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Just because I laugh a lot, doesnt mean my life is easy. Just because I have a smile on my face every… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Yeah, if my bandmembers listened to me and put everything to the side and just said, 'Okay, let's just go in and… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever… — CJoybell C Copy Share Image
Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also… — Marie Kondo Copy Share Image
I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
It is quite difficult to establish a clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship, as the causes are manifold and closely connected. It is simply not… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
We've all been a little confused this past week, because our dearly beloved Westertoren bells have been carted off to be melted… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between… — Eminem Copy Share Image
If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about windsurfing: two hours on the water is like a week's holiday, complete disconnection. You see the land a long… — Victor Valdes Copy Share Image
As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
