E. M. Forster Quotes
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
E. M. Forster
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
Walter Kirn
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
Barbara Hepworth
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
Felicity Jones
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
Ferdinand Marcos
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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
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
Randy West
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
Samantha Harvey
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
Valentino Rossi
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
Ian Mcewan
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Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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And oh you got so much going for you, going right.But I know at 17 it's hard to see past Friday night.I wish you'd study Spanish,I wish you'd take a typing class.I wish you wouldn't worry, let it be.I'd say have a little faith and you'll see.If I could write a letter to me.
Brad Paisley
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Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past,A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.
George Berkeley
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
Samuel Butler
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If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.
Neal Barnard
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If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
E. M. Forster
