The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
– Stephen Hawking
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Søren Kierkegaard
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
– Malcolm X
For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
– John Milton, Paradise Lost
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
– J.K. Rowling
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities . . . still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
– Charles Darwin
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin.
The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
– Simone Weil
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past,
and every sinner has a future.
– Oscar Wilde
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
– George Orwell
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
– Woody Allen
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
– Franz Kafka
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
– Sigmund Freud
I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you’re really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flip-flops, you’re saying: “Hope I don’t get chased today. Be nice to people in sneakers.”
– Demetri Martin
Student Conference Coordinators
Constance Chan
Kailin Chen
Jinny Choi
Colin Conwell
Jennifer Frazin
Claudia HellstrÖm
Christine Jarjour
Lenara Litmanovich
Lena Melillo
Genevieve Parkes
Pournami Rajeev
Rebecca Weber
Kristen Woodruff
Leah Wyatt