Past Quote by Ramachandra Guha Download Open image “What is now in the past was once in the future” — Ramachandra Guha ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Past Time
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
There is only now, no future or past just now. You cannot travel back in time and change things. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“They assured him that the president was bound to act with ‘the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers and cannot act independently… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
“the most powerful enemy of the idea of India now is the Indian state.” — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
“remarkable achievement’, then went on to say that ‘both Union and democracy are under increasing strain these days, with the future of both in… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
“an empty refugee special steaming into Ferozepur Station late one afternoon. The driver was incoherent with terror, the guard was lying dead in his van, and the stoker was missing. I walked down the platform – all but two bogeys were bespattered with blood inside and out; three dead bodies lay in pools of blood in a third-class carriage. An… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
“In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of governance, while speaking at the symposium he wondered loud... the quality of men who are selected by these modern democratic methods of adult franchise gradually deteriorates… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share
So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly prevails, so long as citizens can speak and write in the language of their choosing, so long as there is an integrated market and a moderately efficient civil service and army, and — lest I… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share
“In 1962 one Naga faction had made its peace with the government of India, as had another faction in 1975. But there remained a… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
“The world over, the rhetoric of modern democratic politics has been marked by two rather opposed rhetorical styles. The first appeals to hope, to… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
“The first such avenue was education. After Independence there was a great expansion in school and college education. By law, a certain portion of… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
“Peking followed Lenin’s dictum that ‘promises, like piecrusts, are meant to be broken’.” — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
“The Kingsford–Maitland view of Christianity appealed to Gandhi because it asked not for exaltation of a personal Saviour, but fidelity to one’s conscience.” — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt… — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
Right before the pandemic, 'Past Lives' came across to me as something to read and possibly put myself on tape for. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share
