"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."

-- John F. Kennedy

#Patriotic Quotes #Past Quotes #Rushing Quotes

“Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.”

Source : "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.
“Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.”

Source : 'The Cremation of Sam McGee' (1907)
“Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.”
“People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.”
“The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion”
“Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.”
“Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.”

Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
“Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare performance with text and with other performances. Good poets use the full resources of language.”

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