
I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable
– Peter Ackroyd
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- So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day. – Peter Ackroyd
- So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight. – Peter Ackroyd
- the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page – Peter Ackroyd
- the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page – Peter Ackroyd
- One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one’s own bad lines. – Peter Ackroyd
- Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants. – Peter Ackroyd
- To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone. – Peter Ackroyd
- A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil – Peter Ackroyd
- What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement? – Peter Ackroyd
- I am the scourge of God – Peter Ackroyd
- The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths. – Peter Ackroyd
- I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon – Peter Ackroyd
- It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around… – Frederick Buechner
- Life is made of the past, present and the future. We’re shaped by our past, and we’re shaping our future with our present. – Ibrahim Emile
- To use the past to justify the present is bad enough-”but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past. – Amitav Ghosh
- Hope is Future and Future is present ,Present is past and Past is Mystery – Hamza Khan Takkar
- We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. – Glen Duncan
- We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. – Glen Duncan
- Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
- Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
- If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why. – Joyce Rachelle
- Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. – Fernando Pessoa
- In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time. – Sarah Vowell
- Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! — To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! — Do not wish me such an evil. – Jane Austen
- The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear. – Charles Baudelaire
- Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Animals are such agreeable friends-•they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot
- You must be present in the present to make it a present. – RVM
- You must be present in the present to make it a present. -RVM – RVM
- 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
- Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future. – Amit Ray
- The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great! – Meena Sarine
- The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it. – Cara Black
- The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory. – Roshani Chokshi
- The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. – Peter Benchley
- The present is precious gift.The past cannot be replayed.The future is no guarantee.Live in the present. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- For basic survival, as for evolution, we have to accept the past as the creator of the present, influence the future, and act in the present. – Daniel Egger
