A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past.
There's no sustenance in the past.
Republicans are a glass half full, and Democrats are a glass half empty. Either way, I want a new glass. I want it full, and I want it clean.
Language is a piss poor attempt at telepathy is what it is. We try to put our thoughts into each other's heads through language...But half the intended meaning gets lost in the transmission, and the other half is filtered through existing assumptions...
We sat on the dusty floor like that for what felt like hours, our legs intertwined in the kneeling position. Like the demon and the angel reaching for one another on Jet’s arm, I felt half of everything. Half pure, half used. Locked in a dark, beau...
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoti...
Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her life, smiles never came easily to her face. But this one was half all right. "I miss you already," he said. Tiger Lily wanted to say it back...
Charlotte Palmer: Miss Dashwood, if only Mr Willoughby had gone home to Combe Magna, we could have taken Miss Marianne to see him, for we live but half a mile away. Mr. Palmer: Five and a half. Charlotte Palmer: No, I cannot believe it is that far, f...
Do you know where the past and the present intersect?" Jac asked him. "Where?" "In your mind, only. It's the only point. Otherwise, the past is further away than the furthest galaxy. We know it, intuitively, because we understand the irrevocability o...
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of fo...
If you don’t deal with the past, the past deals with you.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past.
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
