Oscar Wilde Quotes
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Quotes to Explore
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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Go West, young man.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
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I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.
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When . . . some leisurely passer-by stopped . . . and spoke of cheating, that was in its way the stupidest lie ever invented by indifference and inborn malice, since it was not the hunger artist who was cheating, he was working honestly, but the world was cheating him of his reward.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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I was scared. I thought we had no engine.
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My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
