#ture

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#past #unexpected

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#literature #photography #photography

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame. ↗

— Tatjana Soli

#pictures #war #photography

The future starts today, not tomorrow. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#starts #today #tomorrow

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#present #present

The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#earth-day #future #gary-nelson #generations #heard

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#copies #few #gallery #many #originals

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#dahl #danny-the-champion-of-the-world #fiction #father

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#about #best #comes #day #future

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. ↗

— William Gibson

#future