Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
