Quotes about past
past car way
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way. Robin Wright
past years looks
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath. Robin Wasserman
past history mind
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind. Robin G. Collingwood
past race interesting
Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting. Robin Hobb
past lasts fixed
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
past literature assumption
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past. Robert Nozick
past delicate-life shadow
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream - the life that now lay open before him. Robert Musil
past records made
In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. Robert Wyatt
past california towns
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s. Robert Towne
past enough endeavor
Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough. Robert Silverberg
past garden social-values
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us Robert Smithson
past causes remember
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
past phones doors
I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there. Robert Smith
past quoting pointing
It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future. Robert Plant
past thinking creative
I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.
past stones stepping-stones
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
past ears bells
One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second. Satchel Paige
past names challenges
Obviously, I'm still building a name and reputation for myself. The stigmas that come with my past will remain there for quite some time, but I'm not afraid to challenge those things, and I never have been. Sasha Grey
past ideas world
What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea. Sargent Shriver
past want
I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it. Sarah Waters
past hands years
Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory. Sarah Kay
past style vampire
Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter. Sara Shepard
past forget repeats
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
past phones games
Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle. Sandra Tsing Loh
past people want
People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them. Sandra Bernhard
past mind sorrow
Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future. Samuel Johnson
past political politics
He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.
past purpose progression
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
past roots conversation
Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out. Sarah Orne Jewett
past roots history
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
past night lasts
What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below. Wallace Stevens
past sailing cinema
There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on. Vittorio De Sica
past together-again understood
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. Willa Cather