Previous Reflections

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. - Oscar Wilde

The past is never dead. It's not even past. - William Faulkner

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. - Samuel Butler

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past. - Barbara Kingsolver

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

Those who cannot remember the past are destined to repeat it. - George Santayana

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond. - Jodi Picoult

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C S Lewis

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. - Oscar Wilde

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. - Laurence J. Peter

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. - Robert Gottlieb

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit. - Oscar Wilde

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. - C.S. Forester

And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future. - Han Nolan

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. - Dwight D Eisenhower

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. - Jomo Mzee Kenyatta

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. - T D Jakes

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. - St. Theresa of Lisieux

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

Here lies my past.
Good-bye I have kissed it;
Thank you, kids.
I wouldn’t have missed it. - Ogden Nash

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. - Stephen Ambrose

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. - Brooks Atkinson

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Enjoy your age before it's past; Don't try to be 18 so fast. You're only 14 once, my dears, but you'll be 35 for years. - Elinor K. Rose

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people; they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. - Ken Blanchard