Cut Up Future Present Quotes

#1. Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

Cesare Pavese

#2. We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

Alan Paton

#3. It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

Alexander Lowen

#4. You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you've got one you're trying to argue it away. People who don't believe in miracles shouldn't pray for them.

David Wilkerson

#5. I wrote a trilogy out of order and then rearranged it, because the whole of life is like that
a cut-up
and when you cut into the present, the future leaks out.

Chris Campanioni

#6. A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.

A.J. Darkholme

#7. In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

Simon De Pury

#8. The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

Mark Dayton

#9. Baby, you remind me of my big toe. Why? Because sooner or later I just know I'm ginna bang you on the table.

Vi Keeland

#10. It brought back the feel of her love, something he hadn't felt for centuries. Something that was familiar as his own voice. Funny how a feeling could stay with a person for so long."~Elijah

Jen Meyers

#11. The seams, the laminae between the various worlds the past present and future as well as the living and the nonliving may not be as distinct and clear-cut as we have been taught or as our somewhat arbitrary clocks and calendars have led us to believe.

Rick Bass

#12. Light brings us the news of the Universe.

William Henry Bragg

#13. Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the rings. Occasionally I think about the future, but I try to do that sparingly because it usually makes me anxious.

Amy Poehler

#14. We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme.

Tracy Chevalier

#15. The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

Stephen Baxter

#16. Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

Peter George Peterson