„In my attempt to be helpful, I found myself defending my suggestion.“
— Robert T. Kiyosaki American finance author , investor 1947
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
„I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.“
— Novalis
As quoted in Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy (1987) by Géza von Molnár, p. 2
Context: I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance
Throughout my being's limitless expanse,
Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages
I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
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— Henri Barbusse French novelist 1873 - 1935
Light (1919), Ch. XV - An Apparition
Context: I think of myself, of all that I am. Myself, my home, my hours; the past, and the future, — it was going to be like the past! And at that moment I feel, weeping within me and dragging itself from some little bygone trifle, a new and tragical sorrow in dying, a hunger to be warm once more in the rain and the cold: to enclose myself in myself in spite of space, to hold myself back, to live.
„People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.“
— Robyn Donald New Zealand writer 1940
Source: Tiger, Tiger
— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965
Speech in the House of Commons (January 23, 1948), cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 154 ISBN 0300107986
This quote may be the basis for a statement often attributed to Churchill : History will be kind to me. For I intend to write it.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
„Don't believe in the 60's,the Golden age of Pop.You glorify the past,when the Future dries up“
— Bono Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960
Lyrics, Rattle And Hum(1988)
Context: Don't believe in the 60's, the Golden age of Pop. You glorify the past, when the Future dries up
"God Part II
— Sri Aurobindo Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet 1872 - 1950
January 14, 1932
India's Rebirth
— Sydney J. Harris American journalist 1917 - 1986
Source: On the Contrary (1964), Ch. 7
— Amrita Sher-Gil Hungarian Indian artist 1913 - 1941
Statement made when her painting was rejected by the Simla Fine Arts Society in 1935.
Sikh Heritage,Amrita Shergil
— Howard Zinn, book A People's History of the United States
Source: A People's History of the United States (1980), Ch. 1
— Gregory Maguire, book Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
— Walter A. Shewhart American statistician 1891 - 1967
Source: Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product,1931, p. 8
— Charles Rosen American pianist and writer on music 1927 - 2012
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 3 : Mountains and Song Cycles
— Janeane Garofalo comedian, actress, political activist, writer 1964
Feel This Book, co-authored with Ben Stiller
from "Feel this Book"
„I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended.“
— Václav Havel playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic 1936 - 2011
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Context: I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going thorough a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself, while something else, still indistinct, were arising from the rubble.