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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.


Barbara W. Tuchman

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BREWSTER KAHLE All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past.
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GARY F EVANS... The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
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ANUJ SOMANY To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.
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KELLY JONES Honesty,moral standards ,and principles all partner up with truth be the best you can be. In this wo...
GARY F EVANS... A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
LOUIS L'AMOUR No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves...
HARUKI MURAKAMI He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
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LULU Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
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MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
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JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest.
“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma...
JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
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JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
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Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
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J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima
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JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.
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JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?”
“Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<...
JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.”
“This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y...
JOHN GREEN The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op...
RAQUEL CEPEDA The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
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GARY F EVANS... I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
WARREN CUCCURULLO I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
DAN QUAYLE I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.
AIDAN QUINN That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
MURRAY WALKER I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
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DONALD DAVIDSON The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest."
"No way," Glory said. "...
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MARCEL PROUST Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying...
TONI MORRISON My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.
VERONICA ROTH We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.
SOPHOCLES I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
T. BOONE PICKENS I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action...
JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou...
JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted...
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JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying...
JOHN GREEN I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up.
AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present
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KNUT HAMSUN Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T.S. ELIOT Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it
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GARY F EVANS... I have none other than You, O Lord. In the Guru's Sanctuary, the Lord is found, O my merchant friend...
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BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK