#past

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#anyone #back #cannot #change #does

I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#mortality #past #beauty

I really have to make sure that I'm staying true to who I am, and that I know my responsibilities to current N.B.A. players, to future N.B.A. players, to our past and retired N.B.A. Players. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#current #future #i #i am #know

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. ↗

— Dian Fossey

#dwell #future #life #more #past

I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#fight #gotten #had #hard #i

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal

Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#certainly #challenges #cycle #episode #faced

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#famine #future #human #in the past #instead

I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened. ↗

— Francesco Borromini

#been #eight #half #half past #happened

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#clear #disease #expect #give #had