Romesh Gunesekera
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I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON NICK HORNBY RICHARD CARLSON DAN QUAYLE The purpose of the visit is to brief India about what Norway had been doing. We will assist both Ind... ERIK SOLHEIM MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there. MURRAY I. MESZAROS MARTIN JACQUES Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... [Sri Lanka and Little Rock] are definitely different, but the climate is not that different, the pro... CHRIS WEEKS Live or die, don't hang in between. NEHA KOTHARI We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO BOB DIAMOND Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO CRAIG GROESCHEL Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with ... NATE PARKER The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out ther... MICHAEL EALY RICHARD CARLSON KILROY J. OLDSTER DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER MANDY HALE The past wrote about the future not acknowledging the past writing about the future. 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MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO The fact that it is set in a phantasmagorical island somewhere in ancient Sri Lanka throws up immens... FRANCIS WACZIARG For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself. MARIANA FULGER Clearly, we are a species that is well connected to other species. Whether or not we evolve from the... GEORGE M. CHURCH DEBASISH MRIDHA DAN QUAYLE Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER HARBHAJAN SINGH THEODORE ROOSEVELT The idea that I'm trying to get across is that we're always planning for the future. And the future ... ERIC TAYLOR CHUCK PALAHNIUK TONY CAMPOLO I'm the rose within the concrete that simulates the struggle, yet the blossom reveals defeat. THE WRITTEN FACE I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... WE ARE ALIVE IN THE PRESENT, EVERYTHING ELSE IS PAST OR FUTURE ! DR.PRASAD RAJHANS J.K. ROWLING Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH even in death, his last breath was poetryN'ZURI ZA AUSTIN KATE CHOPIN We're worrying about issues of whether we have faith in our staff or we don't. DAVE STIDHAM Whatever I've heard out there, whether Dr. Sessoms was changing the face of Delaware State or anythi... JAMES HOLT PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We know no fear. It was cut from our souls at birth. We can feel it only as an absence, as an empty ... JOHN FRENCH We can only be HAPPY in the present. Not. In the Past. Or. The Future. LORRIN L. LEE Don't grieve over the past, MOULOUD BENZADI ELLEN HOPKINS THICH NHAT HANH JAY ASHER RALPH WALDO EMERSON IYANLA VANZANT CHOGYAM TRUNGPA I don't want to say we feel like we're going to take over for the future or anything like that. The ... CHRISTINA KIM JOHN RIDLEY The project of dividing the land is going to be Israel's central national enterprise in the coming d... ARI SHAVIT BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH Whether we can live without someone or not is of little consequence when death or overwhelming circu... TERENCE T. GORSKI Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it SOTONYE ANGA ANAIS NIN ANAïS NIN
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