“Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.” KnowsTwoStoriesPastVoiceLinesInterestingHappeningsTechniqueDrivingPhantoms Author:Jo Nesbo
“Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world.” PeopleWorldMadeReasonPastEnergyLinesNegativeDependentShort LifePhysical HealthNegative Energy Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called "state security" in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.” MadeHardStatesPlayPastDiesLinesJusticeRolesSecurityCommunicationKeysAreasFunctionPoliceCourtCriminalsMinistersReconciliationDefenceApartheidCriminal JusticeThrowbackLoyalistsZuma Author:Mark Gevisser
“There's got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you're not allowed to go to college. I just think there's a point past which we are over the line.” PeopleThinkingYearsHas BeensShowsMightKidsSchoolPastLinesCollegeEasierHigh SchoolImmigrationIllegalMight Have BeenIllegal ImmigrationLegal ImmigrationShow RespectValedictorians Author:Jeb Bush
“What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.” PeopleThinkingFirstsIdeasPastLinesApproachFirst TimeNew IdeasRecurrence Author:Robert Hass
“In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.” MayPastCoursesGivenLinesPossibilityLimitsFixedStanding OutInitials Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.” IfsWayMindTodayPastHappinessJoyLiteratureRealizingLinesTomorrowWaveRefuseLoyaltyWithdrawal Author:Andre Gide
“To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.” PeopleNeedsFirstsMadeProblemPastSufferingLinesGenerationsSacrificeSkillsPreparedWorkersWillingnessFactoriesIdleBe PreparedBanditsSlumpsPast Generations Author:Paul Krugman
“Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.” LongMomentsSeemsPastSpiritVoiceLinesStepsStonesInstinctDustLegendsGrainRecallsNeglectedEvery Step Book:At home and abroad Source: At home and abroad
“History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.” IfsWorldLooksPastWaitingUnderstandingLinesForgetHistorySkyIgnoranceWindWallPaperSeedsFallenPushingFlatsHorizonGrainTrappedPullingPencilsNestsHaltDomesSlitsRelinquishingGreat WallPushing Back Author:Han Suyin
“The moral government of God is a movement in a line onwards towards some grand consummation, in which the principles, indeed, are ever the same, but the developments are always new - in which, therefore, no experience of the past can indicate with certainty what new openings of truth, what hew manifestations of goodness, what new phases of the moral heaven may appear.” MayGodGovernmentPastHeavenLinesMoralPrinciplesMovementDevelopmentGoodnessOpeningCertaintyManifestationPhases Author:Mark Hopkins
“Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.” LifeMadeSometimesPastLife IsLinesForeverChangedCirclesStraight Lines Book:Baby Source: Baby
“My parents ... are more like cats. They accidentally had a litter of kittens, and then emotionally moved on to whatever ball of yarn rolled past their line of sight.” PastParentLinesCatBallsSightMovedKittenMoved OnYarn Book:I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People Source: I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People
“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.” IfsYearsWellsKindSelfEnoughSchoolPastLinesRiskTaughtEgoClothesHigh SchoolTwentiesPreparedLifetimeTortureBe KindBiographiesPreservationFlatteringSelf PreservationEdited Author:Sharyn McCrumb
“The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.” WayLooksCountryReasonPastDiesLinesSeeingCrimeEvidenceIdealsPoliceHistoricalCriminalsLoyaltyBest WayBordersEmpiresMapsLoyalOutlinesChalkWarlordsWhen Someone Dies Author:Stefan Molyneux
“Well, I've got something to tell you, In my last life I was a Spanish Count and one of the things I loved to do when I was a count in Spain was take all the commoners, line them up against a wall and throw rocks at them, being a professional hockey goalie is punishment for my bad habits in past lives.” WellsLastsPastLinesRocksWallHabitPunishmentHockeySpainBad HabitsPast LifeGoaliesCommoners Author:Gilles Gratton