Quotes about past
past government engineering
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. Stockwell Day
past able moments
The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present. Storm Jameson
past long benefits
One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past ...
past racing lines
The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line. Stirling Moss
past people age
People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages. Stevie Smith
past forever stories
The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are. Rebecca Solnit
past stories your-future
When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story. Robert G. Allen
past sea differences
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural. Robert Green Ingersoll
past brutality crime
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
past law sorrow
For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled. Samuel Johnson
past imagination desire
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
past judging doubt
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
past cities confusion
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.
past two judging
Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.
past political shadow
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland Saddam Hussein
past drag-queen past-life
I feel like I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life. Rumer Willis
past people want
The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth. Roxane Gay
past looks persons
When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.
past
The past is what the present is doing now. Rowan Williams
past doom
Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past. Ronald Reagan
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