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past influence vain
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens
past political reform
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come. Charles Caleb Colton
past men miracle
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."
past years tvs
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). Charles Stross
past giving video
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune. Alanis Morissette
past dangerous-situations risk
The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies. Alan Watts
past games matter
If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.
past listening life-is-like
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
what-matters matter action
In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter. David Horowitz
what-matters next matter
We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next. Isaac Marion
what-matters discipline foolish
We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity. Charlie Munger
what-matters irrelevant
Above all, discard the irrelevant. Barbara Tuchman
what-matters littles needs
You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside. Miley Cyrus
what-matters people common
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. Baltasar Gracian
what-matters may remember
Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned. Dana Gioia
what-matters people alive
It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive. Bruce Willis
what-matters looks sculpture
All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. Basil Bunting
giving credit world
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
giving heaven littles
There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God. Charles Spurgeon
giving christ repentance
Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.
giving way stewardship
Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
giving people church
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
giving way
God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.
giving-up giving heaven
You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.
giving heaven spurgeon
If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.
giving soul satisfaction
My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.