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“And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.”

Long Ideas States Past Wish United United States Produce Wall Skins Performances Trade Unions Caught Soviet Worn Runners Tigers Hunters Soviet Union Chairman Living On Worn Out Hyperbole

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.”

Years Children Past Parent Middle Caught Children And Parents

Book:The Middle Ground

Source: The Middle Ground

“There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.”

Past Behinds Caught Pace Intervals

Author:Kim Stanley Robinson

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.”

Source: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense

“Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.”

Ifs Giving Years May Different Past Time Courses Names Flower Bears Periods Ten Edges Caught Decades Labels Borders Ties Attributes Different Names

Book:Told by an Idiot

Source: Told by an Idiot

“You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.”

Moments Past Life Is Conscious Empty Infinite Caught Currents Links Changing Your Life Ripple

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.”

People Kind Moments Running Able Past Energy Worry Regret Caught Tendencies Pushing Present Moment

Author:Nhat Hanh