#resent

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present. ↗

— Keifer Thompson

#deal #easier #heart #present #things

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#conservatism #discards #future #having #makes

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#binds #false #future #herself #past

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#expensive #feel #felt #go #growing

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#always #any #end #exists #hence

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#creature #essence #represents

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#past #present #time #life

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#breeze #consideration #curtain #down #gentle

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#books #caught #ever #forgiven #forgiveness

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#because #clearly #european #i #intellectual