„A clue to the future must lie in the past... every scientist, and everyone with intellectual curiosity, can learn something useful from a brief study of the history of atomism.“

2015, Remarks to the Kenyan People (July 2015)

Quelle: Ghost Story

Quelle: Safe Haven

Referring to Napoleon III, in "Mistaken Lessons from the Past", The Listener (6 June 1963)

Quelle: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. xv
Kontext: We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.

Quelle: The Drunkard's Walk, Chapter 10, The Drunkard's Walk, p. 201

Patrick J. Geary, The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe, Princeton University Press, 2003

Variante: A sign is anything that can be used to tell a lie.
Quelle: Trattato di semiotica generale (1975); [A Theory of Semiotics] (1976)

Quelle: Insatiable

In response to critics and ballet fans who say Tidwell "sold-out" by auditioning on So You Think You Can Dance
La Rocco Claudia. "TV Viewers Discover Dance, and the Debate Is Joined" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/arts/dance/21revo.html?ref=dance#, The New York Times, September 21, 2007

Quelle: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 145

The Constitutional History of England (1873-8; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903) vol. 1, p. iii.

Variante: A past tense, future perfect kind of night.
Quelle: White Teeth (2000)

As quoted in Epifanio de los Santos by Fernando Bernardo. Silent storms: inspiring lives of 101 great Filipinos. Anvil Publishing, Inc.(2000). p. 37–38.
ULOL

The Power of Now (1997)

Quelle: "Keynote Speech by Ambassador Qin Gang at the Commemoration for the 50th Anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s Visit to China" https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjb_663304/zwjg_665342/zwbd_665378/202203/t20220303_10647768.html (25 February 2021)

Quelle: The Hiding Place