We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
Marina Abramovic
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
Elliott Abrams
As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much... →
Jill Abramson
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Dean Acheson
In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense... →
Peter Ackroyd
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or... →