The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.
ALAIN DE BOTTONSentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
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There is a history and a reality that we cannot ignore. The challenge before us is real, the questions we grapple with as elemental as life and death.
BILL SHORTEN -
Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I’ll be honest with you, I’m tired of putting stuff on the record. I’m ready to see some real transformation and change.
BERNICE KING -
I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‘I hate you,’ or ‘You make me hate me.
BILLIE EILISH -
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTE -
Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.
GLENN BECK -
I suffered from ‘No one will ever fancy me!’ syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
KATE WINSLET -
Mind share before market share.
BETH COMSTOCK -
Depression is a side effect of dying.
JOHN GREEN -
Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.
LYSA TERKEURST -
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
ALAIN DE BOTTON -
My dad was a great dad.
BIJOU PHILLIPS -
This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
EDWARD WESTON -
I have never gone too far to be unloved by you.
ABBY AUGUSTINE -
In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
I was a skateboarder when I was little; I still skateboard. I teach my kids how to skate.
JASON MOMOA