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  • You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Past Quotes , Years Quotes
  • When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Grief Quotes , Past Quotes
  • There has been some conditionalities in the sense that this debt relief is supposed to release resources to be devoted to education, healthcare and infrastructure, for example. In the past African government made such promises but they never carried them out.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Past Quotes , Promise Quotes
  • She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Past Quotes , Order Quotes
  • Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Believe Quotes , Past Quotes
  • I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist."
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Artist Quotes , Past Quotes
  • If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Believe Quotes , Past Quotes