"The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full."

-- Adam Gopnik

#Past Quotes #Listening Quotes #Might Quotes

“When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.”
“We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.”
“A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.”
“Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.96, Penguin
“Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.”
“The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.”

Source : "The arms race: a programme for world disarmament" by Philip John Noel-Baker, (p. 297), 1960.
“You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,”

Source : Elias Hicks (1825). “A Series of Extemporaneous Discourses: Delivered in the Several Meetings of the Society of Friends”, p.166
“I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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