Quotes about past
past land names
People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property. Emily Post
past administration middle-east
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. Elliott Abrams
past shapes way
Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out. Ellen Hopkins
past doors rooms
Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.
past promise cant-change
I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.
past our-world notion
The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world. Elizabeth Hand
past want moments
Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . . Elizabeth George
past changed forgiven
The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.
past giving shadow
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past! Elizabeth Gaskell
past thinking fire
I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was a deliberately set fire, and then a whole chain of information became malevolent.Criminal past - that worked all in their favor to create this "monster" - and they even used the word "monster." It's like, let's ensure that the public thinks he's an evil individual. Elizabeth Gilbert
past revolution statements
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. John Corigliano
past light done
I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. John Burns
past return may
One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth. John Burroughs
past trying matter
I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past. Joel Osteen
past forward-in-life my-future
I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life.
past new-day progress
No matter what you've gone through in the past, no matter how many setbacks you've suffered or who or what has tried to thwart your progress, today is a new day, and God wants to do a new thing in your life.
past fifth-amendment three
We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades. Joe Biden
past moments my-future
The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future. Louise Hay
past years yesterday
All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are
past ease process-of-life
I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.
past long negative
The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment!
past let-it-go today
Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.
past done moments
The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.
past forgiving forgive-yourself
Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.
past thinking world
It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. I am not limited by any past thinking. I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow.
past earth may
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There are much more intimate relations between the earth and the living organisms which populated it, and it may even be demonstrated that the earth was developed because of them. Louis Agassiz
past essence names
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. Logan Pearsall Smith
past people haste
I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction Lois Lowry
past men dare
How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God. LL Cool J
past your-future hostage
You can't let your past hold your future hostage.
past wind sky
Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing." Mao Zedong
past down-and facts
You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.
past integration contribution
Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution. Tariq Ramadan