#sent

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#ambiguity #between #country #hundred #japan

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. ↗

— Ben Okri

#africa #come #future #how #jazz

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— Babatunde Olatunji

#gift #history #mystery #present #today

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#annihilation #annual #consumption #energy #energy consumption

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. ↗

— Lupe Ontiveros

#hands #i #labor #proud #represent

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. ↗

— Origen

#being #cannot #change #changed #converted

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ↗

— George Orwell

#future #past #present #who

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#down #end #face #get #go

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#i #ideas #insights #inventory #more

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#actually #anything #believable #comes #everyone