#past

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past. ↗

— Pat Morita

#because #corner #creature #cry #earth

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#analysis #answer #barbarian #behaviour #clear

Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons". ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #johnpaulwarren #leadership #pastor #pastor-john-paul-warren

Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No. ↗

— Kilari Anand Paul

#burn #legally #pastor #people #right

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell. ↗

— James Young

#centuries #country #ethic #four #i

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#books #core #died #essence #heart

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future. ↗

— Boyd K. Packer

#future #humor #past #age

But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such memories as that of the late Emiel Kroger and the present Pablo Gonzales, and one by one, of course, those memories died out and the legend died out with them. Places like the Joy Rio and the legends about them make one more than usually aware of the short bloom and the long fading out of things. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio") ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#legends #memory #past #age

because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#past #anger

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#life-experience #past #change