Quotes about past
past compare
It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present. W. P. Kinsella
past layers determined
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing. W. G. Sebald
past way normal
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.
past government people
The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed. W. S. Merwin
past thinking visions-of-the-future
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce. Virginia Gildersleeve
past reality men
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely. W. H. Auden
past cheerful population
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
past men history
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
past trying wish
How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found! William Cowper
past roulette damage
The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews -- that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage. Wayne Hale
past guilt moments
Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment. Wayne Dyer
past looks condemnation
To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.
past thinking animal
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past. Townes Van Zandt
past community trying
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color. Van Jones
past garden museums
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. Robert Hughes
past thinking voice
I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'. Roddy Woomble
past tragedy needed
I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable. Robyn
past touching village
Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads. Roberto Bolano
past behinds
Nothing is ever behind us.
past two rivers
Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.
past audience-of-one long
In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries. Robertson Davies
past mirrors order
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.
past your-past adages
Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you. Robert Palmer
past
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. Robert Penn Warren
past history rebuke
The past is always a rebuke to the present.
past accepting burden
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
past faces forget
Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know? Robert M. Pirsig
past remembrance links
Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured. Robert Evans
past worn cloaks
I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak. Robert E. Howard
past yesterday bored
Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past. Walt Disney
past nostalgic loses
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
past
Future is not extrapolation of past Vinod Khosla
past years sky
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs—out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time—chant, not of the past only, but of the future... Walt Whitman