One of the things he loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic. Once he had been able to do the same... Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, longed for the past, for the normal. He wondered if normalcy was something, like a vision or silence, you didn't realize it was precious until you lost it.
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You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.
You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.
The choices we're working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can't know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it's all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway.
She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.
My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.
In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved
You canÆt go back, Ever. You canÆt change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.
Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.
And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All the past ages had accomplished was as nothing.
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
You canÆt change the past, it just is
I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling.
I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.
There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.
Past performance doesn't have anything to do with future performance. It's a massive delusion. It's the most insane thing in the world. You want a pick a fund with low turnover where the management has been around for a long time.
. . . for events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.
The Democrats may remember their lines, but how quickly they forget the lessons of the past. I have witnessed five major wars in my lifetime, and I know how swiftly storm clouds can gather on a peaceful horizon. The next time a Saddam Hussein takes over Kuwait, or North Korea brandishes a nuclear weapon, will we be ready to respond In the end, it all comes down to leadership, and that is what this country is looking for now. (RNC Annual Gala, Feb. 3, 1994)
We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't threaten our health or poison our planet. Let's choose to use it.
Our members overwhelmingly support primary enforcement of the seat belt by at least 70 percent in every survey we have taken over the past decade. We hope the legislature will finally do the right thing this session and support primary enforcement of the seat belt.
In the past we haven't seen so many vehicles in a group get good ratings, with none rated poor, ... Vehicle designs are getting better, as this group of SUVs demonstrates.
Freedom Rings has been closely analyzing the performance of its stores in the Philadelphia area over the past several months. After consultation with its creditors, it has been determined that closing the remaining four stores is the best way to maximize
It is a big assumption that the weather of the future is going to be represented by weather of the past.
We know today if you go to western and central Africa that humans and chimps live in similar and neighboring environments. This is the first evidence in the fossil record that they coexisted in the same place in the past.
While Republicans may have lost the past two elections for governor, they can take comfort from the fact that they currently lead Virginia's love parade.
But I contend that it has worked very well for us over the past six years,
He has been forced to test his own powers in this area enormously over the past year. When I was pretty sure that the autobiography was going to be a great success, ... and when it, on the contrary, got viciously attacked... well, I know I'm not wrong. Obviously the times are out of joint.
While the counter still trades at a discount to our 16.5 times market price-earnings ratio, its current premium over our fair value estimate and strong price appreciation over the past few months suggest that the issue has temporarily outrun its fundamentals, with no further upside in the next 12 months.
This isn't about me, but about all the people that have had an active role. It's about Jeremy Foley Florida athletic director, the three presidents of Florida in the past 10 years, and the fans and players who have shared in our fortune. This is my fourth time in the Final Four two as a head coach, one as a player and one as an assistant, and I've been blessed.
People must look at the bigger picture. We cannot continue doing things as was in the past. People must learn to accept change.
But as we have shown during the past two years, America will not be intimidated, nor will we retreat from the world,
We also had the tragic events of September 11th, and I know for everyone that's caused us to step back, think about our priorities. It's a tragedy that affects us personally and affects our businesses. For the computer industry in particular, I think it highlights the importance of security, giving that far more importance than we've had in the past. We don't want our digital systems to have weaknesses that allow for tragedies, exploiting the weaknesses that are there. And so there's a renewed sense of focus on that.
In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.
This is good news, because many of the past studies of the effect of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular events looked only at men, so physicians were reluctant to prescribe aspirin for women because there was little data.
The acquisitions we have made in our fee-based businesses over the past few years have allowed us to achieve our earnings objectives, while maintaining high returns, despite the pressure on the net interest margin.
I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame.
This direction-less situation must be seen as negative, not neutral, because it has come at a time when new business investments and job creation are much needed. During the past 27 months, Massachusetts has regained only one-fifth of the jobs lost in the previous 34 months for a net employment loss of 4.8 percent since the peak in early 2001. In terms of job creation, this has been a very weak recovery.
He's been dropping the barrel (of the bat) more than he has in the past. It was good to see him looking like the old Chance from Rosenblatt last year today.
A paradox exists in the world of mergers and acquisitions. Other studies that have looked at MA deals in the past 20 years have found that deals in earlier MA cycles destroyed, rather than created, shareholder value. Yet to grow to be an organization operating on a global scale, it is almost impossible to do so quickly enough through organic growth alone. Mergers and acquisitions have in many ways become necessary. Interestingly, evidence is now mounting that the deals conducted in the current merger wave may be different. Across a broad range of industries throughout the world, lessons learned are being applied.
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
Despite impressive gains in the numbers and quality of courses over the past twenty years, entrepreneurship education still lives mostly on the fringes of academe, not in the mainstream. Our aim is to change that so that entrepreneurship is a legitimate,