Charles Wright Quotes

How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Future
  • Song
  • Past

• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • America
  • Together
  • History

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Past
  • Question

• The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Time
  • Past

• Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Past
  • Happiness

• My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Sweet
  • Meal
  • Nashville

• The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Why
  • Best

• There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Past
  • Fear
  • Present

• Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Past

• There is an indolence in griefWhich will not even seek relief. What is the toil, or care, or pain,The human heart cannot sustain?Enough if struggling can createA change or colour in our fate;But where's the spirit that can copeWith listless suffering, when hope,The last of misery's allies,Sickens of its sweet self, and dies.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Pain

• I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Door

• AXIOM. - Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

  

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

• Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Law
  • Control
  • Pollution

• How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

  

  Charles Wright
  • Past
  • Sweet
  • Noise