Enslaved Quote by C. S. Lewis

In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they…

— Alan M. Taylor

“Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left?

— George Carlin

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

— Theodor Adorno

[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values but neither…

— Ronald Reagan

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible…

— Walter Wriston

I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for…

— Zack Snyder

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

— Charlie Munger

I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can…

— Will Oldham

Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests…

— Amanda Foreman

I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always…

— Vladimir Putin