I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington..

Don't just consume things, create things.

I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past an….

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from h….

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear..

I started to earn money because we didn't have money..

At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend..

You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how q….

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post f….

We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now..

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments ….

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it..

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part r….

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened..

The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and all hope for the future. Since whe….

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present..

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their app….

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react ….

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power..

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it..

The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect Kristiana K….