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Amy Winehouse

Amy Jade Winehouse (September 14, 1983 – July 23, 2011) was an English soul and jazz singer and songwriter from Southgate, London.

Quotes

 * I'm a songwriter but she [ Katie Melua ] has her songs written for her... She must think it's her fucking lucky day... It's not like she's singing old songs like Jamie [ Cullum ], she's singing shit new songs that her manager writes for her.
 * Sara McDonnell, "Amy Winehouse - Frank About All That Jazz" musicOMH (April 4, 2004)

 * It's not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that's 'cause I don’t really give a fuck.
 * Blender, Almost Famous: Amy Winehouse, April 2007

 * I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
 * Amy Winehouse, Friday Night With Jonathan Ross

 * I know there are people in the world who have worse problems than falling in love and having it blow up in your face, but I didn't want to just wake up drinking, and crying, and listening to the Shangri-Las, and go to sleep, and wake up drinking, and listening to the Shangri-Las. So I turned it into songs, and that's how I got through it.
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 * Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
 * As quoted on QuoteGram

 * Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.
 * As quoted on latintimes

 * «There's no point in saying anything except the truth.»

Frank (2003)

 * You should be stronger than me, But instead you're longer than frozen turkey, Why'd you always put me in control? All I need is for my man to live up to his role, Always wanna talk it through- I'm ok, Always have to comfort you every day, But that's what I need you to do - are you gay?
 * Stronger Than Me

 * You can't sit down right, Cause your jeans are too tight, And you're lucky it's ladies night. With your big empty purse, Every week it gets worse, At least your breasts cost more than hers.
 * Fuck Me Pumps

 * You've got a degree in philosophy, So you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen, Cos it's where you're at not where you've been. So what do you expect from me, To hold your head above the sea? And there are you even though you're bigger, Cos don't you know you crush my tiny figure? And anyway we're still so young And this isn't yet the day. I can't help you if you won't help yourself.
 * Help Yourself

 * You'll never get my mind right like 2 ships passing in the night.
 * In My Bed

 * The Moschino bra you bought me last Christmas Put it in the box, put it in the box Frank's in there and I don't care Put it in the box, put it in the box, Now take it, Take the box.
 * Take The Box

 * My destructive side has grown a mile wide and I question myself again: what is it about men?
 * What It Is About Men

Back To Black (2006)

 * Though I battle blind, Love is a fate resigned Memories mar my mind, Love is a fate resigned Over futile odds, And laughed at by the gods And now the final frame, Love is a losing game.
 * Love Is A Losing Game

 * I'd rather be at home with Ray, I ain't got seventy days Cause there's nothing, There's nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr Hathaway. I didn't get a lot in class But I know it don't come in a shot glass.
 * Rehab

 * They tried to make me go to Rehab I said no, no, no Yes, I've been black, but when I come back You'll know, know, know! I ain’t got the time, And if my daddy thinks I'm fine Just try to make me go to rehab I won't go, go, go.
 * Rehab

 * He left no time to regret, Kept his dick wet, With his same old safe bet. Me & my head high, And my tears dry, Get on without my guy.
 * Back To Black

 * I don't understand, Why do I stress a man, When there's so many bigger things at hand. We could've never had it all, We had to hit a wall, So this is inevitable withdrawal. Even if I stop wanting you And perspective pushes through, I'll be some next man's other woman soon. I couldn't play myself again, I should just be my own best friend, Not fuck myself in the head with stupid men.
 * Tears Dry On Their Own

 * He walks away, The sun goes down, He takes the day but I'm grown And in your way, In this blue shade My tears dry on their own.
 * Tears Dry On Their Own

 * Then you notice likkle carpet burn My stomach drop and my guts churn You shrug and it's the worst Who truly stuck the knife in first? I cheated myself like I knew I would I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good I cheated myself, like I knew I would I told you I was trouble, yeah you know that I'm no good.
 * You Know I'm No Good

 * It's okay in the day, I'm staying busy Tied up enough so I don’t have to wonder, "Where is he?" Got so sick of crying So just lately When I catch myself I do a 180 I stay up, clean the house At least I'm not drinking Run around just so I don't have to think about thinking That silent sense of content That everyone gets Just disappears soon as the sun sets His face in my dreams, seizing my guts He floods me with dread Soaked to the soul He swims in my eyes by the bed Pour myself over him Moon spilling in And I wake up alone.
 * Wake Up Alone

 * What kind of fuckery is this? You made miss the Slick Rick gig.
 * Me & Mr. Jones

 * I'll battle this bitter finale, Just me, my dignity and this guitar case.
 * Some Unholy War

Quotes about Amy Winehouse

 * Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.
 * Jack White, Weiner, Jonah (June 5, 2014), "Jack White". Rolling Stone. (1210):52-78

 * If it wasn't for Amy and Frank, one hundred per cent I wouldn't have picked up a guitar, I wouldn't have written "Daydreamer" or "Hometown" and I wrote "Someone Like You" on the guitar too. Contrary to reports, me and Amy didn't really know each other, we weren't friends or anything like that. I went to Brit School and she went for a little while. But a million per cent if I hadn't heard Frank this wouldn't have happened. I adored her.
 * Adele, "adele interview: world exclusive first interview in three years," i-D, 27 October, 2015

 * The last real individualist.
 * Bob Dylan, Q&A with Bill Flanagan (22 March 2017)

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Complaints

Complaints, in general usage, are expressions of displeasure.

Quotes

 * Do not complain and cry and pray, but open your eyes and see, for the light is all about you, and it is so wonderful, so beautiful, so far beyond anything of which men have ever dreamt, for which they have ever prayed, and it is for ever and for ever.
 * Gautama Buddha, quoted by Charles Webster Leadbeater, in The Masters and the Path  (1925)   p. 229

 * If you get your head above the crowd, you're going to be criticized. So get used to the idea.
 * Matthew C. Brush as quoted by Dale Carnegie in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, chapter 21.

 * Many people get a sense of savage satisfaction out of denouncing those who are better educated than they are or more successful.
 * Dale Carnegie in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, chapter 20.

 * Nothing is feebler than the indolent rebellion of complaint...
 * George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, (1876)

 * Complaints … encourage those who hear our complaints to behave like those we complain about. Once divulged, the offenses done to us seem to make others pardonable. … It is better to praise the favors others have done for you, so as to win still more of them. When you tell how those absent have favored you, you are asking those present to do the same.
 * Baltasar Gracián, Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia, § 129 (Christopher Maurer trans.)

 * Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere habit of complaining.
 * Richard Graves, Olla Podrida, (6 October 1787)

 * There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.
 * Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke; as quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts, edited by Tryon Edwards, (1908).

 * It rhymes with complaining.
 * Matt Groening, providing a fool-proof method—in large part because it is so thematically relevant to his signature works, ' and The Simpsons—for remembering how to pronounce his last name; as quoted in "We hope you like rabbits — introducing 'Life In Hell'" by Al Morch, ' (March 26, 1986), p. 49.

 * No one ever kicks a dead dog.
 * William James Hutchins, as quoted by Dale Carnegie in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, chapter 20.

 * Most people are indifferent, unless their self-interest is at stake. Then there are the chronic complainers.
 * Robin Wall Kimmerer,

 * If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
 * Abraham Lincoln As quoted in The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond

 * The message that really pisses me off is like, "Well, women in the Middle East are getting their genitalia cut, so you should just shut up." That is completely wrong. The point is we're not all truly free until we're all free, and the women who have mouthpieces need to speak up for the women in other places, and for men too.
 * MILCK, as quoted in

 * I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.
 * Dwight L. Moody, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 420.

 * Surely, human is created uneasy; Murmuring when misfortune afflicts him, while selfish when success befalls him...
 * Quran 70:19-21

 * When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.
 * Rumi, Jewels of Remembrance : A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance : Containing 365 Selections from the Wisdom of Rumi (1996) Translated by Camille and Kabir Helminski, IV, 771-4

 * Let him alone and let him curse; for the Lord has bidden him.  It may be that the Lord will look on my distress, and the Lord will repay me with good for this cursing of me today.
 * Second Book of Samuel, chapter 16 verse 11, 12

 * Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
 * Arthur Schopenhauer

 * Never complain if you don't have a better solution.
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger, interview with Guenther Ziesel (2017)

 * I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
 * Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) In the Street, Calais

 * Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.
 * Charles Spurgeon, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 420.

 * From mad dogs and grumbling professors may we all be delivered, and may we never take the complaint from either of them.
 * Charles Spurgeon, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 421.

 * See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always non-acceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
 * Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997) p.56

 * At one end of this scale of this unconscious egoic pattern lies the egoic compulsive habit of faultfinding and complaining about others. Jesus referred to it when he said, “Why to do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)
 * Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,  (2005)

 * Complaining as well as faultfinding and reactivity strengthen the ego's sense of boundary and separateness on which it's survival depends. But they also strengthen the ego in another way by giving it a feeling of superiority on which it thrives. It may not be immediately apparent how complaining, say, about a traffic jam, about politicians, about the “greedy wealthy” or the “lazy unemployed,” or your colleagues or ex-spouse, men or women, can give you a sense of superiority. Here is why. When you complain, by implication you are right and the person or situation you complain about or react against is wrong. There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right.
 * Eckhart Tolle in  A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, (2005)

 * Nothing is easier than fault-finding. No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, is required to set up in the grumbling business. But those that are moved by a genuine desire to do good have little time for murmuring or complaint.
 * Robert West, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 420.

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Religious infidelity

Religious infidelity (Latin īnfidēlis, from in- "not" + fidēlis "faithful") is the condition of lacking religious beliefs, or of doubting or rejecting the central tenets of a particular religion.

Quotes

 * We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretentions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation... The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet; that it was written in their Koran; that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners; that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners; and that every Mussulman who was slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once. That it was a law that the first who boarded an Enemy’s Vessell should have one slave.
 * John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Jay (28 March 1786).
 * Concerning an interview in London with the ambassador from Tripoli, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja.

 * INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

 * There is but one thing without honour; smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be: Insincerity, Unbelief.
 * Thomas Carlyle Chartism (1839), Ch. 8

 * He ridiculed the absurdity of refusing to believe every thing that you could not understand; and mentioned a rebuke of Dr. Parr's to a man of the name of Frith, and that of another clergyman to a young man, who said he would believe nothing which he could not understand:--'Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know.'
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T. Coleridge 21 April 1811

 * Monotheism has manufactured a number of hate-filled words - infidel, kãfir, unbeliever, munkir, mushrik, heathen, heretic, hypocrite, polytheist, pantheist, pagan - which raise unbreakable barriers between brother and brother, and which divide the one human family into a number of warring camps.
 * S.R. Goel, Defence of Hindu Society (1983)

 * Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,—diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.
 * Bishop Hall Select Thoughts, or Choice Helps for Pious Spirits

 * The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticisms, fancies and falsehoods, have caricatured them into forms so monstrous and inconceivable, as to shock reasonable thinkers, to revolt them against the whole, and drive them rashly to pronounce its Founder an impostor. Had there never been a commentator, there never would have been an infidel.
 * Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Timothy Pickering, Esq. Monticello

 * The infidels today think they built missiles and invented the atom - but our Lord shakes them and sends the sea upon them, and the sea rises and floods a city, because this sea is a soldier. He sends an earthquake that splits the earth, and swallows them up with all their missiles and possessions. Why? Because Allah never abandons His believers.
 * Egyptian Cleric Sheik Muhammad Nassar on a Children Show: The Infidels Invent Nuclear Missiles but The Lord Sends Earthquakes That Swallow Them, video clip, June 2006.

 * No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God.
 * Johann Paul Friedrich Richter Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces; or, the Married Life, Death and Wedding of Siebenkäs, Poor Man's Lawyer 1796-97 First Flower-Piece

 * Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.
 * Thomas Babington Macaulay Edinburgh Review October 1840, review of Ranke's History of the Popes

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

 * No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level of life and every aspiration. It makes our character less vigorous. The gospel is not simply a philosophy of religion or law of life, but it is an apocalypse, showing the heavens to our thought, and so bringing its spiritual benedictions to every heart and life.
 * Richard Salter Storrs, p. 347.

 * Admit their maxims, and the universe returns to a frightful chaos; all things are thrown into disorder upon the earth; all the notions of virtue and vice are overthrown; the most inviolable laws of society are abolished: the discipline of morality is swept away; the government of states and empires ceases to be subject to any rule; the whole harmony of political institutions is dissolved; and the human race becomes an assemblage of madmen, barbarians, cheats, unnatural wretches who have no other laws but force, no other curb than their passions and the dread of authority, no other tie than irreligion and independence, no other gods than themselves.
 * Jean Baptiste Massillon, p. 348.

 * The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. Youth are sensual. The Bible stands in their way. It prohibits the indulgence of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.
 * Richard Cecil, p. 348.

 * What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
 * Edward Young, p. 348.

 * There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.
 * Nathaniel Emmons, p. 348.

 * There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.
 * Hannah More, p. 348.

 * The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.
 * Mark Hopkins, p. 348.

 * There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
 * Henry W. Shaw (better known by his pen name Josh Billings), p. 349.

 * Is it for the cultivated man, the man of broad and general views, to throw himself without reserve and with all his weight, into what, for aught he yet knows, may be only a cross-current and eddy, instead of the main stream of truth?
 * William Greenough Thayer Shedd, p. 349.

 * I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
 * Samuel Johnson, p. 349.

 * Freethinkers are generally those that never think at all.
 * Laurence Sterne, p. 349.

 * Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
 * Warburton, p. 349.

 * When you see a mad dog, don't argue with him unless you are sure of your logic.
 * Charles Spurgeon, p. 349.

 * In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well- meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. I believe that it is safe to say that Christianity is indebted for none of its progress in the world to rational conflicts with infidelity. I do not believe that a single great wrong has ever been overthrown by meeting the advocates of wrong in argument.
 * Josiah Gilbert Holland, p. 349.

Dialogue

 * Klein: In the late 1600s, pirates targeted ships sailing from the Muslim Mughal Empire, including convoys taking wealthy pilgrims to Mecca. What role did attitudes toward Islam play into the colonies’ support of piracy?
 * Dolin: By and large, colonists viewed the pirates of the 1600s as attacking “infidels” despite the fact that the East India Company and the Mughal Empire were valuable trading partners. Colonial governors and elites didn’t view it as a sin to rob non-Christians halfway around the world. The colonists could psychologically disassociate themselves with the victims. The sense I got in reading contemporary documents was that the attitude didn’t necessarily arise out of a fear of Islam. It was more of not giving a second thought about those people. They didn’t feel bad about taking their money and killing them in the process. I think it’s as simple, base, and vicious as that.
 * Eric Jay Dolin in “The surprising history of American pirates”, by Christopher Klein, The Boston Globe, (2018/09/15, updated September 15, 2018).

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Method

Method is a process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

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 * Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.
 * John Dewey, Democracy and Education, Section 13: The Nature of Method, Method as General and as Individual (1916).

 * The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems. It sometimes almost seems as if the techniques of science were more easily learnt than the thinking that shows us what the problems are and how to approach them.
 * Friedrich Hayek, The Pretence of Knowledge, Nobel Prize lecture (11 December 1974).

 * The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, "Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature" (1863).

 * Sometimes the elaborate, the learned method, the grown-up method is not as good as the simple and childishly naîve method.
 * Robert Oppenheimer as quoted by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin in:

 * Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
 * Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Ch. 24 (1974).

 * If every college teacher taught his courses in the manner we have suggested, there would be no needs for a methods course. Every course would be a course in methods of learning and, therefore, in methods of teaching. For example, a "literature" course would be a course in the process of learning how to read. A history course would be a course in the process of learning how to do history. And so on. But this is the most farfetched possibility of all since college teachers, generally speaking, are more fixated on the Trivia game, than any group of teachers in the educational hierarchy. Thus we are left with the hope that, if methods courses could be redesigned to be model learning environments, the educational revolution might begin.
 * Neil Postman, Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969).

 * The quality of striving after the ideal, that is, the quality which makes men reformers, and the quality of so striving through practical methods—[is] the quality which makes men efficient. Both qualities are absolutely essential. The absence of either makes the presence of the other worthless or worse.
 * Theodore Roosevelt, Latitude and Longitude among Reformers, published in the "Century" (June, 1900).

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 * 1) Most importantly, this kind of activity got French Wikiquote shut down for copyright infringement. (It was only recently restarted, and is having to rebuild from scratch.) Although a quote site cannot copyright its individual quotes as taken from other works, it can copyright its editorial selection and presentation, and simply pasting such a selection into another website can be considered a copyright violation.
 * 2) We are pushing the Wikimedia philosophy of citing reliable sources in lieu of an editorial board to ensure accuracy. Not only does this set us apart from all other quote websites, but it also helps us avoid (1) by demonstrating that we aren't just copying the material. In fact, there is a growing practice of simply removing new quotes that have no sources, especially in poorly-sourced articles, as themes often are.
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City Lights (Born Haley Alexandra) is a student. Her current interests include friends, photography, and music. Her favorite articles on Wikiquote include Jade Puget, Smith Puget, Davey Havok, Adam Lazzara, Matt Rubano, and Peter Wentz. Her favorite musical artists include Amber Pacific, Escape the Fate, Taking Back Sunday, The Academy Is..., Cobra Starship, Fall Out Boy, and Cute Is What We Aim For. They are her favorite Wikipedia articles, along with the band members. Her favorite book is Catcher in the Rye.

Quotes

 * "Break dance, not hearts.  I heard that somewhere."
 * "It's not that I'm afraid of them, it's just I don't know them.  Which scares me."  -On her best friend Jordan's older friends
 * "Oh, so I can see the TMNT movie, but when I want to go to Chuck E. Cheese, that's when you're like, 'Do something a twelve-year-old would do?'"
 * "You obviously don't know anything if you think that Avril Lavigne is punk.  Ow, don't hit me because of my fucking oppinions!   She is the farthest thing from punk, and that will alway be what I think."
 * "I guess I understand that.  I mean, I liked Aaron Carter when I was younger..."   -When Jessica said she liked rap music

Dialoge
Me:  Do something! I can only record this until some phsyco finds me with the camera! Jessica:  //chair surfs// Me:  //turns camera to Jordan//   Say hi! Jordan:  //waves and makes slutty poses// Me:  You little fucking bitch! Ronisha:  Y'know Chinese people have over a hundered letters in the alphabet? Me:  Are you saying we don't?  Jessica:   Jordan and I just made a new dance. What should we call it? Me:  Jordan helped? Jessica:  Yeah. Me:  I dunno, but make sure it has 'whore' somewhere in it. Kyle: What's on your hand? Me:  A spell to keep the Friday the 13th monsters away. Kyle:  You believe in that stuff? Me:  Yeah. Bad shit happens, man. Especially in big rooms, like the cafeteria or something. Kyle:  I like big rooms. Me:  I thought you might. Shelby:  (over phone)   I can give you Kyle's adress and phone number and stuff. Me:  Seriously? Shelby:  Yeah. It's personal info here. Me:  I'm never gonna use it. Shelby:  Google him. Technically that's not stalking. Me: I do. Every day. Shelby:  Okay yeah. That makes you a stalker. Shelby:  Kyle's weird. Me:  Like how? Shelby:  One day in Tech Ed he was already mad, and the teacher was explaining something. He was giving a demo so we all had to come watch, but Kyle's desk was right there so he stayed put, and like halfway through the teacher's demo he just fell out of the chair. Me and like four other girls busted up, and so did the teacher. Me:   Why? Shelby:  Because you know how he looks like a tenth-grader because of how tall and mature-looking he is- Me:   He's not too mature. Shelby:  -Well yeah, but he looks that way. Anyway, he was just laying on the floor. It was hilarious. Me:  I cannot trace this! *holds up picture of a leaf* Kyle:  Why not? It's a freakin' leaf. Me:  My paper is as thick as your head, dumbass! Kyle:  I need paper. Me:  Nice to know. Kyle:  //slight pause// Imma go to the bathroom. When I get back, there better be paper on this desk. //kyle returns and sees a peice of paper that says "I HATE YOU" on his desk, and glares at me// Me:  You said you needed paper. You didn't say I couldn't write on it. Me:  Hey, stupidass. Wanna make a quick twenty bucks? Kyle: I'm listening, jackass. Keep talking. Me:  First off, I'm not the jackass in this conversation. Second off, break up with George for me. Kyle:  Alright. Oh but Haley, if you don't have the money on Moday, you'll- Me:  I swear man, I'll hang myself. Kyle:  Oh no, much worse. Buy a G-string. Me:  Like, a guitar G-string? Oh-kayyyyy... Kyle:  Oh no. Much more fun to look at then a guitar string. (The last day of school, and the office calls me for early dismisal.) Kyle:  Bye, retard. Don't die from blood loss over the summer. Me:  I'll try. //I turn and start to leave, then look back at Kyle, teary-eyed// Me:  I am going to miss you so fucking much it's unbelieveable. And Kyle, I never told you this, but I love you so much. //I hug Kyle, and as I walk out of the classroom I hear:// Kyle:  I live ten minutes away from you, you idiot! Me:  (thinking) Damn it... (the first day of school, walking into French class) //kyle walks in// kyle:  oh fantastic, I have classes with you this year too? me:  go shave your legs. kyle:  So shelby said that you guys were gonna walk past my house five million times until I came outside and talked to you. me:  yeah. kyle:  i'm gonna stand outside with a shotgun. I mean it. (on the morning announcements: and congradulations to Gage --- for winning the Who Am I contest!) me: WHAT THE BLOODY- (falls out of chair) kyle:  Haley, did you get the new CD? me: the day it came out. kyle:  i downloaded it on LimeWire. Free and illegal. me:  wow, two for one. sounds like your kinda place. Shelby:  So, you've fallen for Kyle again. Me:  Yup. Fallen right into the firey pits of hell.

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User talk:Randall00

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User talk:Horis gorman

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User talk:Arjunmajumdar

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User talk:P heroic~enwikiquote

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User talk:Korokamen~enwikiquote

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User talk:Jeopardytempest

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User talk:Waypasthadenough

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User talk:Sonicblade128~enwikiquote

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User talk:C777

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User talk:City Lights

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Obstinacy

Obstinacy is acting in a manner characterized by stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness.

Quotes

 * An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
 * Bishop Joseph Butler, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 437.

 * We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.
 * Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader (1903) p. 277

 * His still refuted quirks he still repeats, New-raised objections with new quibbles meets; Till sinking in the quicksand he defends, He dies disputing, and the contest ends.
 * William Cowper, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 437.

 * Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
 * Madame Necker; reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 195.

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Occupation

Occupation commonly refers to:

 * Employment in a job or other role in society
 * Military occupation, the martial control of a territory

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Opposition

Quotes about opposition

Quotes

 * He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
 * Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Reflections on the Revolution in France.

 * The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.
 * , reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

 * No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
 * Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, Bk. II, ch i.

 * When I first came into Parliament, Mr. Tierney, a great Whig authority, used always to say that the duty of an Opposition was very simple—it was to oppose everything and propose nothing.
 * Edward Stanley, debate (June 4, 1841). See Hansard's Parliamentary Debates.

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Physiognomy

Physiognomy (from the Gk. physis meaning "nature" and gnomon meaning "judge" or "interpreter") is the assessment of a person's character or personality from his or her outer appearance, especially the face. The term can also refer to the general appearance of a person, object, or terrain, without reference to its implied characteristics, as in the physiognomy of a plant community.

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 * It is possible to infer character from features, if it is granted that the body and the soul are changed together by the natural affections: I say "natural", for though perhaps by learning music a man has made some change in his soul, this is not one of those affections natural to us; rather I refer to passions and desires when I speak of natural emotions. If then this were granted and also that for each change there is a corresponding sign, and we could state the affection and sign proper to each kind of animal, we shall be able to infer character from features.
 * Aristotle, Analytica Priora (Prior Analytics), 2.27 (Trans. A. J. Jenkinson)

 * The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
 * Christian Nestell Bovee, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought, Volume II, p. 82 (1862)

 * [T]here is surely a Physiognomy, which those experienced and Master Mendicants observe… For there are mystically in our faces certain Characters that carry in them the motto of our Souls, wherein he that cannot read A.B.C. may read our natures.
 * Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part II, Section 2 (1642)

 * Since the Brow speaks often true, since Eyes and Noses have Tongues, and the countenance proclaims the heart and inclinations; let observation so far instruct thee in Physiognomical lines....we often observe that Men do most act those Creatures, whose constitution, parts, and complexion do most predominate in their mixtures. This is a corner-stone in Physiognomy… there are therefore Provincial Faces, National Lips and Noses, which testify not only the Natures of those Countries, but of those which have them elsewhere.
 * Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, Part II, Section 9 (circa 1675)

 * A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date.
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book I, Chapter IV.

 * * Sæpe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.
 * Often a silent face has voice and words.
 * Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Book I. 574.

 * All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.
 * William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 6, line 102.

 * Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face Bears a command in 't: though thy tackle's torn, Thou show'st a noble vessel.
 * William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act IV, scene 5, line 66.

 * There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face.
 * William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 4, line 11.

 * Your face, my thane, is a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time.
 * William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 5, line 63.

 * I knowe wele by thy fisnamy, thy kynd it were to stele.
 * Tale of Beryn (a spurious 15th century addition to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales)

 * Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
 * Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Ch. 12 (1890)

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Gone in 60 Seconds

Gone in 60 Seconds is a 2000 American action film about a retired master car thief who is forced to return to his former trade by a crime boss threatening to kill his younger brother. It is a remake of the 1974 H.B. Halicki film of the same name.

 * ''Directed by Dominic Sena. Written by H.B. Halicki (original film) and Scott Rosenberg.

Memphis

 * I am a baaaad man.
 * Having sex or boosting cars... Um, oo! Uh. How about having sex WHILE boosting cars?
 * I'm a little tired, I'm a little wired, and I think I deserve a little appreciation!
 * The ladies are dirty. Walk away. The ladies are dirty.

Calitri

 * I try to learn your ways, understand your obsessions. But this baseball, it's so bleeding boring. Isn't it?
 * They threw us out of England, they threw us out of France, so here we are. Flourishing, really, except for the minor inconvenience of despising everything about your country.
 * [Blackmailing Memphis] One: You kill me, they kill you, your brother dies anyway. Two: You lie, you accept the job, you take your brother, you run. I hunt you down, I kill you, I kill your brother and I kill your mother for the aggravation you cause me. Three: You accept the job, you steal some cars, you make some money, and you be a big brother.

Others

 * Donny: Any asshole can pull a gun on somebody! You don't know the first thing about stealing a car! You need a role model!
 * Sway: Next I'll pull out the leather, high heels, and pink underwear for you.
 * Sway: I've got two jobs. I've discovered that you have to work twice as hard when it's honest.
 * Sway: Hello, ladies. I always was a sucker for a redhead.
 * Sphinx: If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of criminal life and inspired you to change your ways, then his injuries carries with it an inherent nobility and a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate. You say, "poor Toby". I say, "poor us".

Dialogue

 * Det. Drycoff: Are you okay?
 * Officer: I think so.
 * Drycoff: Are you sure? 'Cause you just went through a wall.

 * Memphis: Well, without disappointment, you cannot appreciate victory.
 * Det. Roland Castlebeck: Did Eleanor tell you that?
 * Memphis: Well that's hitting below the belt.:

 * Det. Roland Castlebeck: I'm a police officer. If you kill me, your life is over.
 * Calitri: No, you got that the wrong way ’round. If I kill you, your life will be over.

 * Donny: Eleanor is Memphis’ unicorn.
 * Freb: What’s a unicorn?
 * Donny: A fabled creature? You know, the horse with the horn? Impossible to capture?

Cast

 * Nicolas Cage - Randall "Memphis" Raines
 * Angelina Jolie - Sara "Sway" Wayland
 * Giovanni Ribisi - Kip Raines
 * Christopher Eccleston - Raymond Vincent "Carpenter" Calitri
 * Delroy Lindo - Detective Roland Castlebeck
 * Robert Duvall - Otto Halliwell
 * Will Patton - Atley Jackson
 * Vinnie Jones - Sphinx
 * Scott Caan - Tumbler
 * James Duval - Freb
 * Timothy Olyphant - Detective Drycoff
 * Chi McBride - Donny Astricky
 * William Lee Scott - Toby
 * Grace Zabriskie - Helen Raines
 * Frances Fisher - Junie Halliwell
 * Trevor Goddard - Don
 * Master P. - Johnny B

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Piety

Piety is a virtue that may include devotion, humility and religiosity. The word piety derives from the Latin pietas, the noun form of the adjective pius, which means "devout" or "dutiful."

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 * Piety is not an end but a means to attain ... the highest degree of culture. This is why ... those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites.
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections, Elisabeth Stopp, trans. (Penguin: 1998) #519

 * I consider piety to be openness to the unmanipulated mystery of life.
 * Tomáš Halík, Night of the Confessor: Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty (Noc zpovědníka, 2005). Doubleday, 2012. ISBN 0307952827.

 * Intellectual life has a certain spontaneous character and inner determination. It has also a peculiar poise of its own, which I believe is established by a balance between two basic qualities in the intellectual’s attitude toward ideas—qualities that may be designated as playfulness and piety.
 * Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1974), p. 27. ISBN 0307809676.

 * Piety, then, needs a counterpoise, something to prevent it from being exercised in an excessively rigid way; and this it has, in most intellectual temperaments, in the quality I would call playfulness. We speak of the play of the mind; and certainly the intellectual relishes the play of the mind for its own sake, and finds in it one of the major values in life. What one thinks of here is the element of sheer delight in intellectual activity. Seen in this guise, intellect may be taken as the healthy animal spirits of the mind, which come into exercise when the surplus of mental energies is released from the tasks required for utility and mere survival. “Man is perfectly human,” said Schiller, “only when he plays.” And it is this awareness of an available surplus beyond the requirements of mere existence that his maxim conveys to us. Veblen spoke often of the intellectual faculty as “idle curiosity”—but this is a misnomer in so far as the curiosity of the playful mind is inordinately restless and active. This very restlessness and activity gives a distinctive cast to its view of truth and its discontent with dogmas.
 * Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1974), p. 30

 * Is it not thy piety itself which no longer letteth thee believe in a God?
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885), T. Common, trans., LXVI, p. 319.

 * What's piety but the sense of guilt? People want to square off all the things they have wished and done to the beloved dead while they were alive.
 * Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades (1936)

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

 * Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
 * Thomas Carlyle, p. 451.

 * In theory, piety is reverence and love for God; and in practice, it is the exercise of all our powers in obedience to the Divine will. Combining the theory and practice, we have the richest treasure known on earth — love for God shown in obedience to God.
 * D. W. Gates, p. 452.

 * In periods that are wanting in inspiration piety always assumes the character of caution. It degenerates from a free and joyful devotion to a melancholy and anxious slavery.
 * J. H. Seelye, p. 452.

 * What you cannot lift before His pure eyes and think of Him while you enjoy, is not for you. Friendship, schemes, plans, ambitions, amusements, speculations, studies, loves, businesses — can you call on the name of the Lord while you put these cups to your lips? If not, fling them behind you.
 * Alexander Maclaren, p. 452.

 * Christian piety annihilates the egotism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
 * Blaise Pascal, p. 452.

 * There is no piety in the world which is not the result of cultivation, and which cannot be increased by the degree of care and attention bestowed upon it.
 * Albert Barnes, p. 452.

 * Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon? We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.
 * William Morley Punshon, p. 452.

 * Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus.
 * William Morley Punshon, p. 453.

 * The great moral lesson which Saul's history leaves for the instruction of mankind is this: That without true piety the finest qualities of character and the highest position in society will utterly fail to make a true and noble man. If Saul's heart had been true to God, he would have been one of the grandest specimens of humanity; but, lacking this true obedience to God, he made his life an utter failure, and his character a moral wreck.
 * William Mackergo Taylor, p. 453.

 * The piety that keeps the Sabbath with a great zeal of devotion, yet fails to keep its possessor honest on Monday, is not the kind that is stamped in the mint of heaven.
 * Herrick Johnson, p. 453.

 * What smoky prayers!—one earnest petition, and then a thousand wandering thoughts! What smoky faith!—a joyful sight of the Saviour's sufficiency, and then a long season of inward complacency occasioned by that sight! Self-righteous efforts to extirpate self-righteousness, and most legal endeavors to elaborate faith! What smoky affections!—gleams of love to God, followed by long intervals of estrangement!— spurts of self-sacrifice, followed by systematic worldliness! Fits of fury against some besetting sin, followed by abject surrender to its power! Ah, brethren, if the Saviour were human, He would set His foot on this fuming profession; He would extinguish this smoking flax.
 * James Hamilton, p. 453.

 * We must watch over pious impressions, and cultivate them, or they will never become vigorous and enduring.
 * William Ellery Channing, p. 454.

 * Think of a woman by the side of a dying sister, or a sick child, or a sorrowing friend, or a broken-hearted and broken-spirited man, without a word of heaven in her mouth — without so much as the ability to whisper "Our Father," or even to point her finger hopefully towards the stars.
 * Josiah Gilbert Holland, p. 454.

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Precept

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 * "Precept must be upon precept."
 * Isaiah 28:10

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Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. ~ Alexander Pope


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Present

 * This article is about the temporal point between past and future. For the freely-transferred article, see gift.

The present (or now) is the time range associated with the events perceived directly for the first time, not as a recollection (perceived more than once) or a speculation (predicted, hypothesis, uncertain). It is a period of time between the past and the future, and can vary in meaning from an instant to a day or longer. It is sometimes represented as a hyperplane in space-time, typically called "now", although modern physics demonstrates that such a hyperplane cannot be defined uniquely for observers in relative motion.

 * A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z · See also · External links

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 * Should not a true understanding of life promote care for the future along with the present? This is the immediate duty of every scientist. Until now scientists have dealt with life as finite — is it not now their mission to see life as extending into Infinity?  553.
 * Agni Yoga, Agni Yoga  (1929)

 * History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The narrative must then relate to the moment of its creation as much as its historical subject. History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these temporal co-ordinates cannot be fixed, history becomes a continuous interaction between the historian and the past. As such, history can be seen as a process of evaluation whereby the past is always coloured by the intellectual fashions and philosophical concerns of the present.
 * Dana Arnold, Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 1 : Reading the past : What is architectural history?

B

 * We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
 * Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté as translated by Full text online, Pt. III : The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Ch. 1 : The Aesthetic Attitude

 * Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.
 * Subramanya Bharathi, as quoted in "The People's Poet" by N. Nandhivarman in TamilSydney (7 January 2008)

 * The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all, the puny all thou callest thine.
 * Richard Francis Burton, in The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870), IX.

C

 * Impermanence becomes vivid in the present moment; so do compassion and wonder and courage. And so does fear.
 * Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)

 * The natural quality of mind is clear, awake, alert, and knowing. Free from fixation. By training in being present, we come to know the nature of our mind. So the more you train in being present - being right here - the more you begin to feel like your mind is sharpening up. The mind that can come back to the present is clearer and more refreshed, and it can better weather all the ambiguities, pains, and paradoxes of life... The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.
 * Pema Chödrön, How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

D

 * The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action; we can not avoid living it through a project; and there is no project which is purely contemplative since one always projects himself toward something, toward the future; to put oneself "outside" is still a way of living the inescapable fact that one is inside.
 * Simone de Beauvoir, Part III: The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity.

 * Happy the man, and happy he alone,
 * He who can call today his own;
 * He who, secure within, can say,
 * Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
 * John Dryden, Imitation of Horace (1685), 29th Ode, § 8.

E

 * Gott ist ein Gott der Gegenwart. Wie er dich findet, so nimmt und empfängt er dich, nicht als das, was du gewesen, sondern als das, was du jetzt bist.
 * God is a God of the present. How he finds you, so he takes and receives you, not as that which you have been, but as that which you now are.
 * Meister Eckhart, Deutsche Predigten und Traktate, J. Quint, ed., p. 72

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All is an interminable chain of longing.'''
 * '''It is the future that creates his present.
 * Robert Frost, "Escapist — Never'' (1962)

G

 * To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.
 * Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia (1923), existing in manuscript as "My Two Years in Russia" this work was published as My Disillusionment with Russia (1923), and My Further Disillusionment with Russia (1924) and finally as a complete one-volume edition (1925)

H

 * The present is an infinitesimal between two infinites. 'Tis a line (a thing without breadth or thickness) moving across the surface of Eternity. The present is no more, by the time you have said, This is present.
 * Henry Harland, The Lady Paramount (1902), Ch. VII.

 * There's nothing new in human experience, Mr. Tully. Each generation thinks it invented debauchery or suffering or rebellion, but man's every impulse and appetite from the disgusting to the sublime is on display right here all around you. So, before you dismiss something as boring or irrelevant, remember, if you truly want to understand the present or yourself, you must begin in the past. You see, history is not simply the study of the past. It is an explanation of the present.
 * Spoken by Paul Hunham (played by Paul Giamatti) to Angus Tully (played by Dominic Sessa in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Holdovers (October 27, 2023) written by David Hemingson. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "THE HOLDOVERS - Official Trailer [HD - In Select Theaters October 27, Everywhere November 10]" (17.07.2023) by user "Focus Features".

 * Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.
 * Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).

J

 * At the beginning of the new millennium, and at the close of the Great Jubilee during which we celebrated the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of Jesus and a new stage of the Church's journey begins, our hearts ring out with the words of Jesus when one day, after speaking to the crowds from Simon's boat, he invited the Apostle to "put out into the deep" for a catch: "Duc in altum" (Lk 5:4). Peter and his first companions trusted Christ's words, and cast the nets. "When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish" (Lk 5:6). Duc in altum! These words ring out for us today, and they invite us to remember the past with gratitude, to live the present with enthusiasm and to look forward to the future with confidence: "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever" (Heb 13:8).
 * Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Novo Millenio Ineunte of His Holiness John Paul II to the Bishop Clergy and Lay Faithful at the close of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 (6 January 2001). Archived from the original on April 16, 2022.

 * Heidegger's Sein und Zeit [Being and Time]... develops a "fundamental ontology" according to the modes in which the self "exists,"... and originates... several meanings of Being...explicated in a number of fundamental categories... [i.e.,] "existentials"... functional structures of the active movement of inner time by which a "world" is entertained and the self [is] originated as a continuous event. The "existentials" have... a profoundly temporal meaning... [i.e.,] categories of internal or mental time, the true dimension of existence... must exhibit, and distribute between them, the three horizons of time—past, present, and future... [I]n the classical... "table of categories"... the column under... "present" remains practically empty... For the existentially "genuine" present is the present of the "situation," which is wholly defined in terms of the self's relation to its "future" and "past." It flashes up... in the light of decision, when the projected "future" reacts upon the given "past" (Geworfenheit) and in this meeting constitutes what Heidegger calls the "moment" (Augenblick): moment, not duration, is the temporal mode of this "present"—a creature of the other two horizons of time, a function of their ceaseless dynamics, and no independent dimension to dwell in. ...a derivative and "deficient" mode of existence. ...[A]ll the relevant categories of existence... having to do with the possible authenticity of selfhood, fall in correlate pairs under... either past or future... No present remains for genuine existence to repose in. Leaping off... from its past, existence projects itself into the future; faces its ultimate limit, death; returns from this eschatological glimpse of nothingness... [T]here is no present to dwell in, only the crisis between past and future... balanced on the razor's edge of decision which thrusts ahead.
 * , The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginning of Christianity (1963) pp. 335-336.

 * To look at what is there, at nature as it is in itself, at Being, the ancients called... contemplation, theoria. But... if contemplation is left with only the irrelevantly extant, then it loses the noble status... as does the repose in the present... Theoria had that dignity because of its Platonic implications—because it beheld eternal objects in the forms of things, a transcendence of immutable being shining through the transparency of becoming. Immutable being is everlasting present, in which contemplation can share in the brief durations of the temporal present. Thus it is eternity, not time, that grants a present and gives it a status of its own in the flux of time; and it is the loss of eternity which accounts for the loss of a genuine present. Such a loss of eternity is the disappearance of the world of ideas and ideals in which Heidegger sees the true meaning of Nietzsche's "God is dead"; ...[i.e.,] the absolute victory of over realism. ...[T]he same cause which is at the root of nihilism is also at the root of the radical temporality of Heidegger's scheme of existence...
 * , The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginning of Christianity (1963) p. 338.

K

 * There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.
 * John F. Kennedy, Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland (28 June 1963)

 * We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
 * Ken Kesey, As quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) Ch. 11.

L

 * The present! it is but a drop from the sea In the mighty depths of eternity. I love it not—it taketh its birth Too near to the dull and the common earth. It is worn with our wants, and steeped with our cares, The dreariest aspect of life it wears; Its griefs are so fresh, its wrongs are so near, That its evils of giant shape appear; The curse of the serpent, the sweat of the brow, Lie heavy on all things surrounding us now.
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Vow of the Peacock (1835). Opening lines.
 * Not to the present is our hour confined, The great and shadowy future is assigned To be the glorious empire of the mind. The past was once the future, and it wrought In the high presence of on-looking thought ; All that we have, was by its efforts brought.  To-day creates to-morrow, and the tree Of good or ill grows in past hours, what we Make for the future — certain is to be.
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) (1838), Vol III. Chapter 8

 * The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.
 * Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress (1 December 1862).

 * Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o’erhead!
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life.

 * We are making the future as well as bonding to survive the enormous pressures of the present, and that is what it means to be a part of history.
 * Audre Lorde, Learning from the 60s,

M

 * In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.
 * Alan Moore, Watchmen

O

 * Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
 * Barack Obama, 10 Downing Street reception speech, April 1 2009.

P

 * We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
 * Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 2:6 NIV

R

 * There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.
 * Kim Stanley Robinson, Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 13, p. 282.

S

 * Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.
 * William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, sc. iii, ln. 108.

T

 * The future has taken root in the present.
 * Kryptonian spaceship, Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), Written by Chris Terrio. As quoted in: Adam Chitwood (May 28, 2023): Cyborg’s Vision in ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Showed Us What Could've Been in the DCU. In: collider.com. Archived from the original on December 12, 2023.

 * I hearing get, who had but ears,
 * And sight, who had but eyes before,
 * I moments live, who lived but years,
 * And truth discern, who knew but learning’s lore.
 * Henry David Thoreau, "Inspiration".

 * Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.
 * Eckhart Tolle, ABC News Interview.

 * The ego ... reduces the present to a means to an end.
 * Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.

 * The mind, to ensure that it remains in control, seeks continuously to cover up the present moment with past and future.
 * Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.

 * Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.
 * Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.

 * To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.
 * Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.

 * Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is “borrowed” from the Now.
 * Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.

 * Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed. Step out of the time dimension as much as possible in everyday life.
 * Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.

 * To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
 * Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.

 * if your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey’s inner purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing, but everything to do with how. It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment.
 * Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.

 * Power of Now: Don't regret over the past because it's over. Don’t worry about the future because it is not here yet. Smile at the present movement, because this is real. Your excellent future depends on your present right actions.
 * Thích Nhật Từ, Inner Freedom: A Spiritual Journey for Prison Inmates (2008), ISBN 1741893909.

 * There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
 * Yamamoto Tsunetomo,  (c. 1716)

V

 * I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
 * Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

W

 * Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life (1839), St. 6.

 * The present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
 * Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education (1929), p. 23

Misattributed

 * Oogway:  Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present".
 * Jonathan Aibel and Glen Berger, Kung Fu Panda, (2008).
 * "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, Today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present." (Regarded as an "anonymous poem", in Joan Chittister's Heart of Flesh (1998), p. 129; in Vital Issues: The Journal of African American Speeches (1998), Bethune-DuBois Publications, p. 27, and in Joan Rivers' "From Mother to Daughter" (1998), p. 30.)
 * "Yesterday may be History, Tomorrow is Mystery and Today is our Golden Opportunity!" (As quoted in H.S. Cheesbrough's Canada Lumberman, Volume 62 (1942), Southam-Maclean.
 * "Live today. The past is gone. Today is God's gift to us, whether it be a day of storm or sunshine. Tomorrow may never come, and that is immaterial." (From Friends' Intelligencer, Volume 91, No.1-26 (1934), p. 21)
 * "Yesterday is history; to-morrow is merely a hope; to-day is the only absolute asset of time that is yours." From Frank Pixley's Thoughts and Things (1912), in, Duffield & Company, p. 29.

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