Book Quote by Amy Tan

“He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

— Frederick Lenz

“If your mind is not in the present time, your body will look like a dead body, cold and insensible!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Perhaps the solicitation to pamper the way men live is too strong for them, for much of the business of philosophy at the present…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of…

— Louis Finkelstein

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I…

— Danny Masterson

I think the stock market is a very dangerous place to be at the present time. In fact, the stock market today is almost…

— David Stockman

“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope…

— Paul the Apostle

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows…

— William Temple

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

— Thomas Carlyle