Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
Ben Jonson
I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.
Spike Jonze
Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face... →
F. Sionil Jose
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past... →
The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very... →
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and... →
Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall... →
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert