Quotes about past
past class people
What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair. Aldous Huxley
past brave-new-world years
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.
past matter remember
It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
past brave-new-world thinking
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.
past shells would-be
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell. Albert Einstein
past want looks
If you want to know the future, look at the past.
past thinking soon-enough
The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
past expectations action
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation. Alexander Hamilton
past thinking people
The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe, cruel, and oppressive measures. Instead of endeavoring to establish their authority in the affection of their subjects, they think they have no security but in their fear.
past period possibly robust seen
What we're witnessing now is possibly the most robust period of M&A that we have seen in the past 10 years.
past giving water
There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied. Alexander MacLaren
past safe forget
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
past style looks
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style. Alexander McQueen
past lasts argument
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. Alexander Pope
past politics lasts
Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
past errors needs
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
past life-is cant-change
My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past. Alex Trebek
past years able
We will certainly be focused on making sure that the prosperity we have been able to accomplish in the past 8 years under the leadership of Mr. [Barack] Obama, continues. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
past choices looks
If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present. Debbie Ford
past creative energy
As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.
past self voice
To get past your ego and its defenses you need to get quiet, be brave, and listen to your inner voices....When you embrace the messages of each aspect of your shadow, you begin to take back the power you’ve given to others and form a bond of trust with your authentic self. The voices of your unembraced qualities, when allowed into your consciousness, will bring you back into balance and harmony with your natural rhythms.
past history looks
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. E. P. Thompson
past people labyrinth
Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind. E. O. Wilson
past clouds students
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. E. M. Forster
past innovation needs
Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them. Drew Gilpin Faust
past class next
On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next. Douglas Rushkoff
past race people
People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being. Don DeLillo
past nostalgia rage
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
past talking fading
There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
past language amenities
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
past may way
The past is the best way to suppose what may come. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
past looks function
The function of posterity is to look after itself. Dylan Thomas
past important lessons
It's important to learn the right lessons from the past. Douglas Alexander