“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie - “‎No people whose word for 'yesterday...” 1

Similar quotes

“And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.”

Kahlil Gibran
Read more

“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.”

Chuck Palahniuk
Read more

“This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.”

Chuck Palahniuk
Read more

“A good lawyer has a grasp of what yesterday teaches us about today and tomorrow, and knows that the real meaning of words like "freedom" and "justice" can only be found in the tapestry of history.”

Sol M. Linowitz
Read more

“I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment.‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read more