#present

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death. ↗

— Julian Lincoln Simon

#death #increase #our #population #represents

But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#block #economic #economy #fundamental #future

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#animal house #comedies #friends #house #hughes

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia. ↗

— Simon Reynolds

#morrissey #music #nostalgia #past #pop

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#clearly #future #know #led #only

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#company #esteem #find #grandest #happened

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#compelling #future #historical #i #i can

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow. ↗

— John Strachan

#disturb #fall #fills #him #his

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. ↗

— Mark Strand

#into #life #misrepresented #poem #turned

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way. ↗

— David Strathairn

#beautifully #certainly #delivered #even #film