Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?
Richard King
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Tabitha King
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left... →
Charles Kingsley
One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates.... →
Stephen Kinzer
In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are... →
I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather... →
Mark Kirk
I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time... →
Walter Kirn
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds... →