"At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past ."

-- Isaac Asimov

#Past Quotes #Odd Quotes #Unpredictable Quotes

“Your neck. I want to kiss it.”
“We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.”
“A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.”
“We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.”
“No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.215, Courier Corporation
“I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.”
“I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.”
“I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.”

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