The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader or any person in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
I will take personal responsibility for transporting the 20,000 ventilators anywhere in this country that they want, once we are past our apex. But don't leave them sitting in a stockpile, and say well we're going to wait and see how we allocate them across the country.
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past are real and must be addressed.
Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
