#past

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#give #help #help people #imaginary #insecure

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#beauty #become #change #continues #historical

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#existence #flux #future #intensely #mobile

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #future #lost #neglects #past

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#caused #distribution #in the past #most #past

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#been #believed #case #every #extremely

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#decades #good #history #much #over

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#being #falling #i #nearly #out

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#future #man #must #parent #past

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#blind #complementary #disclosed #entirely #fact