Quotes about past
past thinking data
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge. Peter Medawar
past stills ifs
Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present. Pete Wilson
past air bird
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself. Peter Ackroyd
past guy sake
I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy. Pete Wentz
past giving challenges
I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up. Pete Cashmore
past men joy
Lose what? A man only has a soul to be won or lost; apart from his life, he has nothing. Past or future lives do not matter - at the moment you are living this one, and you should do so with silent comprehension, joy and enthusiasm. What you must not lose is your enthusiasm. Paulo Coelho
past soul your-past
Visit your soul; don't visit your past.
past flames fire
Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present
past ends finding-out-the-truth
The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.
past people our-past
People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.
past people risk
Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.
past
It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
past doors names
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.
past predicting
Charts are great for predicting the past. Peter Lynch
past peaceful ira
What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic. Peter Hain
past earth environment
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. Rachel Carson
past healthy want
I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70. Questlove
past people long
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? R. A. Salvatore
past america historical
I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre. Quentin Tarantino
past years people
What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalities that are not being accounted for. Prince Charles
past impact long
We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
past oblivion over-it
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. Pliny the Elder
past political narrative
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. Phyllis Schlafly
past sacred lineage
An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony. Pope Benedict XVI
past too-much
The present is burthened too much with the past. Nathaniel Hawthorne
past appreciate too-much
The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.
past race views
The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future. Julian Huxley
past media years
For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation. Judy Woodruff
past technology years
A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble Paul Krugman
past years useless
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
past artist remember
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist. Patrick Swayze
past india littles
When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw India's past as part of an antiquity rendered irrelevant by modernity, which with its science, nation states, free enterprises, and consumer societies was supposed to have solved all problems. Pankaj Mishra
past judgement should
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements. Paracelsus