People always say the past is in the past but I beg to differ. The past is who we are, it prepares… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When only silence remains, we stand suspended between remembrance and presence in a fragile space between being grounded in the past and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
In the past there were two things that motivated me then: independence, and passion about what I was doing. And those are… — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
Fame is like a big eraser. It's strange, now that I'm famous. In my parents' opinion, all the shitty things - all… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir… — John Piper Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
What you have to do as a comedian, that I suppose is quite difficult, is you have to end it. All the… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
I don't know the history of hating communism in America. I've always been interested in it, and I've thought about studying it… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
If the U.S. turns away from the international system, then we will simply have to look after it ourselves. Together, we can… — Cecilia Malmstrom Copy Share Image
The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the… — David Simon Copy Share Image
While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions… — Dave McClure Copy Share Image
I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than… — Karl Taylor Compton Copy Share Image
“For a long while the past drops away from you easily and it would seem automatically, properly. Its scenes don't vanish so… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
