“The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows.” ImportantHappensPastSpaceGoneEventsMeaninglessEntityEchoesHere And NowImportsSpace BetweenContaining Author:Tim Lebbon
“To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.” MindPastEffortExistenceGoneEventsBleakWreckageGreat Effort Book:Infernal Devices Source: Infernal Devices
“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.” PeopleHas BeensWarHandsPoliticalReligiousChristianityPracticeGoneEconomicEventsBuddhismHolyConcernedEternityViolentTheologyOppressionObsessedHinduismConsistentlyImperialismJudaismHumaneHand In HandHoly WarProselytizingHinduism And Buddhism Author:Aldous Huxley
“Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain.” FactsCertainCausesBornGoneEffectsEventsEndlessChainsStand Alone Author:Julian Johnson
“I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.” WayWellsBookIdeasStoriesInspirationFoundGoneOur LivesInfluenceEventsParticularNewsPlot Author:Michael Koryta
“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.” MenWorldShouldYearsLittlesWarHelpingRememberMovingPurposeDiesGoneSeeingMilitaryEventsPerspectiveDignityRemainsEndlessBeachWar Of The WorldsVisibleMuseumsWorld War IiTidesWorld War IGrandeurLandingCemeterySuperbInterveningNormandyOmahaGreatest MilitaryOmaha Beach Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.” WellsChildrenPainJobsYoungBeliefGrowthGoneGrowingChildhoodEventsIdentityDevelopmentOughtComfortAdultsTasksEaseInternalsRelativeMatesAdulthoodAdolescenceFormationMarkersGrowing PainsPersonal ChangeChange GrowthInternal Peace Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.” PeopleIfsYearsSeemsPastLosesGoneCenturyEventsSucceedRememberedRemarkableOver ItVelocityPast EventsYears Gone By Book:The Confessions of an Elderly Lady Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady
“There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.” ImportantRememberBornForgetGoneWonderfulEventsPlanetsMassForget EverythingImportant Events Author:Richard Bach
“I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'” KnowsWantHumansTwoPastGoneEventsHuman NatureWindCoreAll TimeAccurateHistoricPopular Movie Author:David McCullough
“I was writing a lot of true love songs-true love almost gone wrong but saved at the last moment...Many of the best songs get written in a state of abject misery. I prefer to write fewer songs and have less cataclysmic events in my life...Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good.” KnowsWritingStatesMomentsLastsSongGoneWrittenEventsStupidMiserySavedFewerReally Stupid Author:Jorma Kaukonen
“I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away.” PeopleWorldCertainMy OwnTalkingGoneEventsFiguresConsciousDiedHistoricalAddictionLifestyleAmazedPassed AwayPublic FiguresNot FriendsHistorical Events Author:Tennessee Williams
“The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.” WorldShouldStatesDoneLawNationsCommunityUnitedUnited StatesGoneEventsTerribleLateResponseInternationalToo LateUnited NationsInternational LawTerrible Events Author:Edward Said
“I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.” ImportantSongEmotionGoneEventsOutletsExpressive Author:Avril Lavigne
“Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.” DoneBlackCommunityChurchGoneEventsTrumpClintonBlack CommunityBlack Church Author:Donna Brazile
“Bernie [Ecclestone] has not been shy to say one or two controversial things. The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately. But not Bernie! What it tells you is that the demand for live sporting rights, the demand for global or regional events, is so powerful that you brush aside some things because there aren't so many of these events.” PersonsTwoLastsPowerfulGoneRightsEventsProductsDemandShyCrapBrushesControversial Author:Martin Sorrell