“Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.” FirstsLooksLittlesArtStillsWarFactsPastRememberFallCenturyObjectsEasierErrorsDecadesInevitableSurvivedAdoreGreat ArtNazismRise And FallEruptionWar Of 1812 Author:Michael Cunningham
“The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.” NeedsChildrenPastTeacherTeachingObjectsOur ChildrenEducateOur Past Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.” GivingLongDoeDoneHelpingRunningPastSinAnswersHellObjectsCostDifficultyAskingForgivingDoctrineOfferingLong RunsForgivenAlasMiraculousWipeFresh StartCalvaryAsking God Author:C. S. Lewis
“No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.” WorldPastSufferingDoubtObjectsKarmaTendenciesNo DoubtRelativeInnate Author:Sarada Devi
“The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.” IfsHomePastPayObjectsStonesHatredFortuneDearMiserableComplimentAncestorGood FortuneWhat You LovePeninsulasCompliments You Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
“The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.” MeanUsePastDesignObjectsFutureMarkAimInstrumentsPast And Present Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects
“They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"” KindStillsWould BePastYoungHouseWaterChurchDarkTreeObjectsGrewShotsPursuitNoiseFasterGatesUnclesFeathersHurricanesSpookyRoaringVelocityYoung LadiesHayDark Trees Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club