Quotes about past
past giving kind
Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind. Coretta Scott King
past chinese today
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. Confucius
past destiny determine
Don't let your past determine your destiny.
past want study
Study the past if you want to define the future.
past men hands
When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.
past native-language environmental
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates. Daniel Yergin
past world links
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world. Daniel Webster
past discovery ideas
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts. Andre Weil
past long way
I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward. Andrea Arnold
past men body
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. Andre Maurois
past men eggs
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
past trying ankles
In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be Andrew Flintoff
past history historian
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. Ambrose Bierce
past mirrors too-much
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
past yesterday age
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
past feet stuck
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Anthony Kiedis
past thinking lines
I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response. Alison Brie
past race talking
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. Alice Walker
past people therapy
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. Alice Miller
past childhood suffering
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.
past want looks
What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it". Alice Munro
past thinking years
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.
past data long
We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. Anne M. Mulcahy
past essence opposites
Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
past three-things three
...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. Anne Lamott
past people looks
People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried. Anna Chlumsky
past festivals terrible
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves. Anna Akhmatova
past bags looks
When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open). Andy Roddick
past smell people
I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events. Alber Elbaz
past self skills
People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera Albert Bandura
past ideas people
Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences
past men sight
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. Albert Claude
past thinking people
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. Albert Ellis