Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
I always carry a tinted moisturiser with SPF sunscreen. A good lip balm is a must - I can't go past Lucas's Papaw Cream.
I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.
