Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Hannah Arendt

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Harold Bloom

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

Heinz Guderian

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Iris Murdoch

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

John Travolta

What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

Kate Millett

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Maya Angelou

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Maxim Gorky

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

Mattie Stepanek

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

Maurice Sendak

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Max Stirner

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

Richard Dawkins

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Sophocles

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Sylvia Plath

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Thomas a Kempis

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope