- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Past Quotes
Looking back to understand what comes next.
This collection of past quotes includes a mid-20th-century physicist's assessment of the atomic-age power balance between Europe and the Anglo-Saxon powers, alongside a separate scientific note on how measurement affects what can be known about earlier moments. Both sit alongside a simpler idea: building your future apart from your past. Related themes appear in our Truth quotes.
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- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that I had the ability to carve out a life for myself, that it was in no way limited by what had already occurred in my past. And that inspired me to go to school.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you save things from your past that you don't quite understand, and you put them in a box, and you save them for later until you can unwrap them and try to understand what they meant.
- Nov 07, 2020
From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really glad that I kept the gap. There are a lot of iconic women from past and present who have one.
- Conditional Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I knew what love was before giving birth to my baby, but whatever I had experienced in the past paled in comparison to the utterly unconditional love I immediately felt for the little bundle I now held in my arms.
- Nov 07, 2020
That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
- Democrats And Republicans
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020