A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its
satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.
-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) "America and Americans" (1966)
satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.
-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) "America and Americans" (1966)
Related:
- Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are
certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy,... - He imagined the past and remembered the future.
--
Eugene McCarthy, on Ronald Wilson... - We are all tired of being stuck on this cosmical speck with its
monotonous ocean,
leaden sky and single moon that is half useless...... - Fully compatable with everything, past, present,
or future... - Heal the past, live the present,
dream the future..... - The opposite of present is (a)past
(b)future... - Americans are people who insist on living in the present,
tense... - Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many
poor people.
- Don...
