Zadie Smith: The past is always tense, the future perfect.

The past is always tense, the future perfect. — Zadie Smith

The past is always tense, the future perfect.
Who well lives, long lives: for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years — Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Gone! gone forever!—like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of — George D. Prentice
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the — Bernard-Joseph Saurin
Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering f — Thomas Love Peacock
All people respect and love their own parents and children, as well as the paren — Confucius
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. — Mahatma Gandhi
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which t — Samuel Johnson
Man must develop his tendency towards the good. — Immanuel Kant
It was left up to Newton to compute the detailed implications of the vortex-theo — René Descartes
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received int — Blaise Pascal
Æquo stat fœdare tempus. Time stands with impartial law. — Marcus Manilius
I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come. — Alfred Tennyson