Prospective Quotes

“I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.”
― Jeff Bezos

“Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. Cicero”
― Cicero

“Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.”
― Antonin Scalia, Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice

“It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell. Wilbur Storey”
― Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

“Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.”
― John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy

“Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.”
― Will Davis Jr., 10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them

“Let us never fear robbers or murders. Those are dangerous from without, Teddy dangerous. Let us be ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Nostalgia tells it like it wasn't.”
― Emily Hunter McGowi

“Boethius moved from considering history from the actor's point of view to a "timeless" eternal view. From the divine perspective, nothing is ever utterly lost, because all of life is possessed by God in the eternal now. Though time was gnawing away at Boethius and stealing all he valued, God was beyond time and loss. Gaining this philosophical vantage allowed the last Roman to become one of the first men of the Middle Ages.”
― John Mark Reynolds

“His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.”
― Davis Bunn, Lion of Babylon

“The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“...it could be worse”
― J. Ayala-Arias

“I might never be okay with what you did."
"I didn't ask you to be."
"I can't trust you."
"I didn't betray you."
"From your prospective."
"That's the only one I've got.”
― Maureen Child, The Price of Passion