Quotes about past
past rest-of-your-life forget
FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE! Eric Thomas
past men years
The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne and His train still fills the temple. He still walks on the wings of the wind, He still rides on the backs of the mighty cherubim, and He still is the Triumphant Champion from Calvary. All hell still bends to His will, and sin and death have lost their hold on all who rest in the shadow of His presence. And the God who calmed storms, raised up dead men to life, and multiplied fishes and loaves to feed thousands is the same God we have today. Eric Ludy
past government understanding
Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low. Eric Liu
past way eyeliner
I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way. Emma Stone
past average law
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law. Emma Goldman
past swings balance
I know there's a balance/I see it when I swing past. John Mellencamp
past president libertarian
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian. John McCain
past
We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.
past people enemy
[Hillary Clinton] was saying, "We never going to do anything in Iraq, we're not going to do anything in Syria." Enemies, do whatever you want. Continue the largest humanitarian crisis, 7 million people displaced refugees. Do all this. We're not going to do anything. That is the type of stuff that is been happening for the past 7 1/2 years under President [Barack] Obama.
past moments abyss
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. John Jeremiah Sullivan
past men civilization
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. John Jay Chapman
past cities denver
Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past. John Hickenlooper
past museums amusing
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. John Hodgman
past world states
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? John Guare
past guitar mysterious
There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal. John Fahey
past office people
There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard. John Ensign
past punishment faults
Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment. John Donne
past looking-forward
They spend their time looking forward to the past. John Osborne
past play long
I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting. John Mulaney
past feet eight
The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head. John McGraw
past discipline effort
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts. John Dewey
past positively
Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.
past history imagination
Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.
past rivers water
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world. Leo Tolstoy
past giving masters
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.
past years type
It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do. Leslie Nielsen
past views understanding
Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them. Leo Strauss
past thinking long
I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past Leo Rosten
past giving modern
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past. Lawrence Lessig
past path culture
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
past sometimes trouble
Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles. Lauren Groff
past years fiction-stories
The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime. Larry Niven
past fool damn
Any damn fool can predict the past.