I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.
What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.
Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.
I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'
Think about your past victories, and then look into the eye of your current obstacle and tell it that it will soon lose like your defeated obstacles.
Refusing to focus on your past disappointments creates a great opportunity for you to give an undivided attention to your present.
The beauty of the present and the future can only be seen by those who are willing to let go of the past.
To move in the forward direction is to be strong and positive enough to bury every negative experience in the past.
Never permit your negative past to come in-between you and the possibilities and opportunities that lie in your present and future.
Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
