Quotes of: Recent-past Keyword

The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue of the history of the planet: as the way we try to understand change through time. The present ...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Design

I was only able to get over my past when I decided I was going to! As I’ve discovered, that’s how everything starts. I decided to get out of bed this morning. I decided to get ready for work (D’oh! Another early morning). Everything I did today...

Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose

We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words anymore, but in colors, in smells, in waves of memory. Right what you care about. Don’t write one more word you don’t care a...

Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life

I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or 'fearlessly'- into my own future: this time of utter raw anguished loss. Though I may have had, since adolescence, a kind of inte...

A Widow's Story

We are split people. For myself, half of me wishes to sit quietly with legs crossed, letting the things that are beyond my control wash over me. But the other half wants to fight a holy war. Jihad! And certainly we could argue this out in the street,...

White Teeth

I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I th...

C.S. Lewis

Listen," Francois said. "Yonder is Paris --laughing, tragic Paris, who once had need of a singer to proclaim her splendor and all her misery. Fate made the man; in necessity's mortar she pounded his soul into the shape Fate needed. To king's courts s...

Cabell James Branch

The undiscovered is not far away. It’s not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before. Reality is constant creation and destruct...

H.E. Davey

The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking evidence of sincere attempts at deficit-reduction the evidence is baffling. The Republicans showed before Christmas that they would seek to reduce the ...

James Fenton

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

City of God

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

Chances

There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

Clockwork Heart

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Change of Heart

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

A Child Called "It"

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

The Charlemagne Pursuit

How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

City of Stairs

You can't change the past, you know? You can't change who you were, but you can change who you're going to be.

The Dogs of Balboa

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Dance Dance Dance

If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force.

Defender