Lost Quote by John Jay Chapman Download Open image “The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.” — John Jay Chapman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lost New york Past Powerful Time
New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
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The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, New York isn't the city I moved to back in 1979. I'm old enough to separate my nostalgia for… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce,… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is.… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
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The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell. — David Platt Copy Share Image
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