This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.-Agathon said at/in from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.-Mitchell Burgess said at/in Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994.I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.-Herb Caen.The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.-Isabelle Eberhardt.Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.-Robin Green said at/in Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994.Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.-Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess said at/in Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994.Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.-William Ralph Inge.We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.-Lyndon B. Johnson said at/in December 13, 1963.Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.-Sir William Osler said at/in to his students.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.-Sir Francis Bacon said at/in "Of Beauty".If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.-Teena Booth said at/in Falling From Fire.Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.-Pearl Buck.The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.-John Cage.Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.-Margaret Cho said at/in weblog, 01-27-04.I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.-John Constable.The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.-Reverend Sean Parker Dennison said at/in Ministrare, 2-10-05.The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.-Havelock Ellis said at/in Impressions and Comments (1914).Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.-Anne Frank said at/in Diary of a Young Girl, 1952.When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.-R. Buckminster Fuller.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.-Hannah Arendt.When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.-Martin Luther King Jr..When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.-Martin Luther.A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.-Franklin D. Roosevelt said at/in radio address, Oct. 26, 1939.A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.-Alfred E. Wiggam.It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.-Robert Anton Wilson.A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.-Woodrow Wilson.
The wise man carries his possessions within him.-Bias.Possession is eleven points in the law.-Colley Cibber said at/in Woman's Wit, Act 1.To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.-Lao-tzu said at/in The Way of Lao-tzu.An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.-Pliny the Younger said at/in Letters.Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.-Marcel Proust said at/in Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896).Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.-John Ruskin.It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.-Vida D. Scudder.I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.-Terence said at/in Eunuchus.I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.-Colleen Wainwright said at/in Communicatrix, 06-23-09.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.-John Adams said at/in 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770.The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.-Samuel McChord Crothers said at/in The Gentle Reader.We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.-John Dewey.Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.-Dr. Thomas Fuller said at/in Gnomologia, 1732.Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.-Thomas Fuller said at/in Gnomologia, 1732.Where facts are few, experts are many.-Donald R. Gannon.Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.-John Gunther.Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Aldous Huxley said at/in "Proper Studies", 1927.Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.-Jawaharlal Nehru.Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.-John Henry Cardinal Newman.
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.-Roberto Benigni said at/in in Newsweek.There but for the grace of God go [I].-John Bradford said at/in Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins.Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.-Cicero said at/in 'Pro Plancio,' 54 B.C..Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.-Charles E. Jefferson.Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.-Jacques Maritain said at/in Reflections on America, 1958.Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus said at/in Meditations, 200 A.D..The future ain't what it used to be.-Yogi Berra.The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.-Jim Bishop said at/in New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959.Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.-Niels Bohr.Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.-Mitchell Burgess said at/in Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994.The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.-Robertson Davies said at/in "A Voice from the Attic", 1960.I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.-Albert Einstein.I have seen the future and it doesn't work.-Robert Fulford.The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.-William Gibson.Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.-Robin Green said at/in Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.-Sir Francis Bacon.Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.-Demosthenes.Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.-Thomas A. Edison.Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.-Thomas A. Edison.You create your opportunities by asking for them.-Patty Hansen said at/in Prevention Magazine, 11-05.Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.-Henry J. Kaiser.The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.-John F. Kennedy said at/in Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959.There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.-General Douglas MacArthur.You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.-Ellen Metcalf.Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.-Bulgarian Proverb.
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.-Matthew Arnold said at/in 'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883 edition, last words.Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.-Jane Austen said at/in Mansfield Park.It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.-Jane Austen said at/in Mansfield Park.To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.-Sophy Burnham.The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.-George Burns.The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.-Sir Richard Francis Burton.Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi said at/in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990.A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.-James Feibleman.The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.-Eric Hoffer.Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.-Flavius Josephus said at/in Life.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.