#past

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. ↗

— James Rollins

#birthday #book #day #days #figured

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#deficits #discovered #forget #future #i

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#change #feeling #how #past #people

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#art #creating #importation #in the past #land

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#effort #freedom #freedom from #in the past #means

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#carries #coming #confidence #contact #conviction

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#also #apology #australia #australian #australians