The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

Peter Benchley
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  2. Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling - Tony Deliso

  3. Don’t come back when you realize that I’m rare - Genereux Philip

  4. If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

  5. Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better.... - Kamand Kojouri

More Quotes By Peter Benchley
  1. The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

  2. Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

  3. Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

  4. Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

  5. Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

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