The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful…
– Henri Bergson
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- when you avoid one life question, you answer another life question. The question is : what life question do you want to answer? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Concentrate on a single feature -“ as, build all toward one eye -“ make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri) – Robert Henri
- The question isn’t whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it? – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. – Cormac McCarthy
- The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. – BF Skinner
- Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O’Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O’Brien: You do not exist. – George Orwell
- …and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. – Colum McCann
- Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? Â – Henri CartierBresson
- We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not. – Robert Henri
- A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. – Robert Henri
- Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use. – Corinne Duyvis
- People don’t exist without the past, I know. But the past isn’t alive. It’s you who’s alive. – SHOOWA
- When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work. – Jennifer Crusie
- With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate. – Spike Milligan
- Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. – Virginia Woolf
- When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be. – Kamand Kojouri
- And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon. – Jack Kerouac
- Never ceased to pray. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn’t we embrace such simple joys? – John Shors
- She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground. – Erica Bauermeister
- Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there’s one person who never ceased to love you – yourself. – Sanhita Baruah
- A man who has ceased to learn ought not to wander around loose in these dangerous times – MM Coady
- the world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased – JK Rowling
- For of what account are Truth and Love when Life itself has ceased to seem desirable? – Clifford Whittingham Beers
- The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. – R Scott Bakker
- There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them. – Billy Graham
- The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them. – Thomas Merton
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- I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. – Laurell K Hamilton
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- This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. – Elie Wiesel
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- I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. – Geraldine Brooks