Alfred Gough Quotes

We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look at something in the middle east where you got people getting beheaded it's like the crusades with Twitter. It's crazy, human nature does the same thing. In a way, even though you're in the future people wanted order so this sort of system rose up.

Alfred Gough

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Holocaust

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Past
  • Marriage
  • Same

• The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Character
  • Past

• The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistakes

• In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Past
  • Community
  • Easy

• The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Respect
  • Escape
  • Guards

• The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Work
  • Country
  • Future

• People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Mind
  • Future

• That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Past
  • Present
  • Forward

• Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Past
  • Present
  • Story

• I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Future
  • Water
  • Organization

• Every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is. But just because something is a part of your past doesn’t make it right. It doesn’t mean that it defines your future. ... Just because something is a tradition doesn’t make it right.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Help
  • Future

• The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks from Stalin to Mr. Bean, creating chaos out of order, rather than order out of chaos.

  

  Vince Cable
  • House
  • Past
  • Chaos

• The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Past
  • Present

• In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Future

• The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

  

  John Keble
  • Past
  • Words
  • Air

• The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.

  

  Ugo Cavallero
  • War
  • Future
  • Development

• The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Career

• The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own website and getting your music out there. I think that's very cool and amazing.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Music
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• We may deny the existence of ethnonationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Men
  • Heart
  • May

• We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look at something in the middle east where you got people getting beheaded it's like the crusades with Twitter. It's crazy, human nature does the same thing. In a way, even though you're in the future people wanted order so this sort of system rose up.

  

  Alfred Gough
  • Future
  • Past
  • Low Tech