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future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage? Charles Caleb Colton
future ruins today
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
future ocean games
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. Alan Watts
future worry progress
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
future judgment premonition
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart
future animal trying
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation. Chogyam Trungpa
future mean two
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong. China Mieville
future vision get-better
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better David Miliband
future looks care
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. David Rakoff
historians illuminate invisible power roads shape taken time
I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time? Rick Perlstein
historians
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. Kenneth Baker
historians human prefer
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction. Niall Ferguson
modern poet should
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons. Camille Paglia
modern apprentice
The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'. Barry Commoner
modern
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny. Dan Stevens
modern solutions
It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems. Corin Nemec
modern-life plumber ifs
If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber. Albert Einstein
modern outside presidency turned
When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.
modern presented words
There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.
modern people
I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains. Dean Miller
modern success tolkien
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. George R. R. Martin
sentence
My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.' Nigel Barker
sentence
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk. Jason Calacanis
sentence time word
Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time. Bill Cosby
sentence wrote
When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going. Colleen Hoover
sentence sentences sticking subtle
I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say. Aimee Bender
sentences
Make no a complete sentence. Amy Poehler
sentences
When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record. Pete Wentz
sentence spite
Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events? Elizabeth Bibesco
sentences
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. Douglas Hofstadter
single-mom believe simple
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. Byron Katie
single loneliness boys
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. Cesare Pavese
single-life speech vain
If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain Ai Weiwei
single-mom struggle opportunity
Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities. Bill Richardson
single breakup love-you
That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love. Beyonce Knowles
single shopping numbers
There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards. Deepak Chopra
single blessing independence
The first of earthly blessings, independence. Edward Gibbon
single wisdom loneliness
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
single-life down-and done
I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done. Ed Sheeran
suffice
Suffice to say they didn't come to me. They didn't come to the NSC, Stephen Hadley