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“At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.”

“In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.”

Way Past My Own Roles Gay Models My Family Role Models

Author:Mika

“Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.”

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!”

People Way Said Sometimes Seems Past Nations Too Much Ambition Sight Distance Response Disappointment Covered Our Future Our Past Stride

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.”

Way Made Ends Past Waiting Rivers Village Adventurous Climax Swimmer Adventurous Life

Book:I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Source: I Heard the Owl Call My Name

“Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.”

Thinking Way Littles Whole Seems Past Water Consciousness Experience Depth Lakes Transparent Past Experiences

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now, And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.”

Ifs Knows Way Today Past Three Tomorrow Yesterday Now And Then Here And Now

Author:Angelus Silesius

“We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.”

Ifs Way Needs Hands Might Past Grief Accepting Impossible Stage Embrace Acceptable Way To Live Clinging Finality Embrace Life Stages Of Grief

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.”

Men Way May Doe Reason Done Past Desire Evil He Man Regard Notion Punishment Rational Beast Fury Undone Unreasonable Doers Evil Doers Past Wrongs

Author:Plato

“At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind. This belief was twice shaken in the past century; first when Russell and his successors showed how the logic men employ can be defective, and later when Freud and Piaget started to reveal the tortuous ways in which our minds actually develop.”

Men Way Mind Firsts Past Law Belief Century Logic Philosopher One Time Inherent Successors Defective

Author:Jean Piaget

“The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.”

Way Long Happens Past Sound Silence Events Figures Long Time Reactions Exceed Repose Reverberation

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“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.”

Ifs Way Mind Today Past Happiness Joy Literature Realizing Lines Tomorrow Wave Refuse Loyalty Withdrawal

Author:Andre Gide

“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”

Way Mean Doe Moments Past Memories Danger Flash

Author:Walter Benjamin

“We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.”

Way May Moments Might Past Realizing Eternal Series Present Moment

Author:John Ashbery

“If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.”

People Ifs Way Years Mean Has Beens Country America Past Black Wealth Justice Poor Special Ten Court Lovely Radical Aggressive Black People Unjust Poor People Boast Special Places Lovely Things

Author:Howard Zinn

“If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.”

Ifs Way Writing Past Moving Meetings Moving Forward Backwards Recent Past

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.”

“I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.”

Way Years Past Soldier Hindenburg

Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.”

Way Trying Years Kind Long Stills Different Past Turns Force Fantasy Forever Long Time Ideals Tales Fairy Just One Nurse Different Kinds Fairy Tale Hung Past Love

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.”

Way Past Life Is Born Community Property Indian Private Property Equitable

Author:Evo Morales

“What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.”

Ifs Knows Way Happens Would Be Past Impossible Machines Cease Sand Our Past Breeze Shifting Spun Time Machine Seashore Blackboard Shifting Sand

Book:Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

Source: Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”

“The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.”

Way Important Past Form Evil Shapes Property

Author:Erik Naggum

“I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.”

Way Feels Writing Stills Past Given Felt Lays Optimistic Hopeful Sixty Reserves

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well as facilities in the Olympic Village in an intensive and comprehensive way.”

Way Years Wells Past Four Training Competition Operations Village Four Years Facility Comprehensive Venues

Author:Liu Jingmin

“Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Trying Has Beens Made Different Today Past Remember Choices Mistake Regret Should Have Should Have Been Back In Time Go Back In Time Different Choices Past Regrets

Author:John S. Hall

“There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.”

Way Giving Has Beens Done Past Fun Black Air Horror Clean Vampire Genre Favour Insects Corpses Casual Seriousness Skulls Maidens Crawling Respectability Browsers

Author:Tim Lebbon

“I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my way back to where I left off. I have my headphones on, I'm checking email, I look at Twitter and Tumblr, and drink a lot of coffee. I need a lot of distraction to work.”

“In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.”

People Way Past Principles Practice Cases Ethics Majority Following Ethical Respect People Ethical Principles

Book:Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“I have a lot of -- I struggle with a lot of shame over my past. There have been times when I've been incredibly embarrassed about the things that happened to me. I don't think that there is one human being in this world that would wish, you know, to be injured as a kid the way -- in ways that I was.”

Thinking Knows World Way Humans Has Beens Kids Past Wish Human Beings Struggle Happened This World Shame Embarrassed Injured Wish You My Past

Author:Traci Lords

“The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”

Way May Past Remember Best Way

Author:Jimmy Savile

“I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.”

Way Country Seems Past Life Is Gone Prejudice Improvement Pity Compare Dishes Country Life

Author:Flora Thompson

“The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.”

“It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.”

Ifs Way Past Written Our Past Your Past Erase Samadhi Blackboard

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.”

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.”

People Way May Made Ends Past Form Culture House Sex Understanding Effort Secret Poverty Path Greater Dying Circumstances Suicide Historical Bounds Yield British History

Author:David Cannadine

“The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.”

Way Made Stills War Use Today Past Fighting Difficult Common Sea Method Common Sense Ships Permanent Navy Infrastructure Sea Power

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with its pathetically-inadequate presence for the past 12 months - where the money has gone? You know, the £30m or so in prize money that every team, even the one at the bottom of the table from August to May, automatically receives by being in the Premier League... So what happened to that money? Or put another way, why was such a meaningless fraction of it spent on recruiting new players? It's one thing not to compete; it's quite another not to even attempt to do so.”

“Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.”

Way Past Television Our Society Accurate

Author:Janet Street-Porter

“How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.”

“Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.”

Way Years Long Sometimes Past Culture Office Long Time Boxes Filmmaker Fascinated Box Office

Author:Neil LaBute

“Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.”

Way Mind Persons Past Science Meditation Fields Computer Paid Solve Puzzles Misunderstood Computer Science Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."”

Way Giving Play Might Past Courses Actors Numbers Secret Magic Keys Couple Give Me Careful Following My Way Sat Be Careful Clue

Author:Kevin Spacey

“While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.”

Way Giving Might Past Interest Audience Happened Data

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.”

Ifs Way Needs Children Use Past Hurt Deals Compassion Creative Childhood Adults Raised Harm Meaningful Love And Compassion

Book:The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

“I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'”

Men Way Said Book Soul Hands Past Winning Christ Wonder Grace Messages Angry Kingdoms Sinner Repentance Cried Thrones Kingdom Of God Revival Altars Sweeping

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.”

Way Past Remember Depends Hope For The Future Remembering The Past

Author:Story Musgrave

“Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.”

Way Two Helping Use Past Growing Productions Historian Traffic Biographies Two Ways Past Present Biographers

Author:Claire Tomalin

“To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.”

Knows Way Past Strong Hours Forget Secret Creative Mystery Labor Forgetfulness

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself in a thousand ways, from a sincere thank you to friend or stranger, to the mute, up-reaching acknowledgment to God--not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past.”

Way Believe Past Emotion Gratitude Thousand Humble Stranger Reaching This Day Sincere Mute Bounty Acknowledgment

Author:Faith Baldwin

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