Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.

Elizabeth McCracken

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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

Carl Levin
- People
- American
- Future
If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

Tadao Ando
- People
- Future
- Dream
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Walter Kirn
- Writing
- Future
- Past
This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

Bassem Youssef
- World
- Work
- Control
What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.

Laura Esquivel
- Life
- Energy
- Water
One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- World
- American
- Tradition