To move foward, you have to leave the past behind
If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.
You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
Big events, small, mundane moments of the day–it doesn’t matter; the past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.
Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usef...
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, —that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.
The past is always more innocent, because it exists peacefully in the unreachable and unchangeable parts of the imagination.
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
Why ever long for something from the past when the future brings things that are so much better?
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant.
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
