P Quotes
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“Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.”
“Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
“Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.”
“Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.”
“Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.”
“Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.”
“Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”
“posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.”
“Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.”
“Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.”
“Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.”
“Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere. Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain. You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You will never have existed.”
“Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.”
“Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.”
“Posterity will pay everyone their due.”
“Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.”
“Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.”
“Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.”
“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”
“Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.”
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.”
“Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.”
“Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.”
“Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all he’d ever thought it really meant was that the people using it had a limited imagination about what exactly humans were capable of.”
Source: Leviathan Wakes
“Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.”
“POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT
FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure
Kamil Ali”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable”
“Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.”
“Posting my thoughts to the internet remains my only source of expression and proof of life: Beyond this I am but a thought that occasionally occurs in the minds of those who currently or once knew me. I do not complain about this state of existence I live everyday because it is one I am deserving of as a direct consequence of my own evil. Nonetheless I am in opposition to a more severe alteration of this state of living. I am truly without the strength of willpower to carry on and my sinful nature places limitations on the power God provides me.”
“Posting something that is encouraging and well done compared to something that is trashy and common is the difference between eating a fine meal or the scraps from making that meal.”
Source: Oops! Did I Really Post That
“Posting to social media is the most effective form of police complaint.”
“Posting with luxury cars like you're wealthy is suspicious. It's the kind of online flex that's pure Synthol.”
Source: Me and memes and memories
“Posting your thoughts on any social media site is like telling you most deeply held secret to the town gossip. Not a wise move.”
Source: Oops! Did I Really Post That
“Postive Vibes! NOT Covid Positive!”
“Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.”
“Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!”
“Postmen have a legendary aura. A ring at the doorbell may inflame a sense of expectation, suspense, secrecy, hazard or even intrigue. Ringing twice may imply a warning that trouble is on the way or an appeal to make the coast clear. Not all mailmen, though, will ring twice and await an eye-catching Lana Turner, whom they can whisper: "With my brains and your looks, we could go places.” ("The postman always rings twice")”
“Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.”
“Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years.”
“Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank.”
Source: Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture
“Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.”
“Postmodernism cost literature its audience.”
“Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.”
“Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.”
“Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.”
“Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.”
“Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.”
Source: The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style