Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#resent

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #resent




Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that is the key


Karen Hackel


#living-in-the-present #living-life-to-the-full #new-age #now #the-present

...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative—the purpose of fiction is not to replace life anymore than it is meant to support some political movement or ideology. All fiction reinscribes the problematic past in terms of the present, and, if it is significant at all, reckons with it instead of simply making it palatable or pretty. What aesthetic is adequate to the Holocaust, or to the recent tragedy in Haiti? Narrative is not exculpatory—it is in fact about culpability, about recognizing human suffering and responsibility, and so examining what is true in us and about us. If we’re to say anything important, we require an art less facile, and editors willing to seek it.


Michael Copperman


#authority #culpability #race #representation #art

The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.


Max Atkinson


#public-speaking #speaking-confidence #speeches #business

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.


Guy de Maupassant


#fear #future #past #present #death

I got you a birthday present. The box is the exact same size as a coffin.



Jarod Kintz


#coffin #death #funny #gift #humor

For your birthday I got you some batteries. They’re dead, just like you’ll soon be.



Jarod Kintz


#birthday #dead #death #funny #gift

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.


Otsuichi


#contradictions #contradictory #death #epiphany #gratitude

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.


Dionne Warwick


#breeds #equal #excel #level #maintained

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.


Criss Jami


#being-yourself #celebrities #emotional #facade #fame

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#future #present #progress #faith






back to top