Quotes about past
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
past remembrance links
Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured. Robert Evans
past anticipate evaluate
Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . . Toni Cade Bambara
past people design
Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits. Stephen Covey
past evil pay
I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not? Vanessa Paradis
past because-i-can harps
I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change. Vanilla Ice
past remember edges
The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature. V. S. Pritchett
past europe czech-republic
Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It's clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that the Czech Republic - or, in the past, Czechoslovakia - would have been one of the founding members of the EU if it hadn't been for the communist takeover in 1948. Vaclav Klaus
past issues political
My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.
past culture matter
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'. V. S. Naipaul
past
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
past people seductive
It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there. Susanna Kearsley
past katniss care
I've asked you fifty questions and still have no sense of your life, your family, what you care about. They want to know about you, Katniss." "But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to time in the past!" I say. Suzanne Collins
past capitol-in-hunger-games my-future
They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!
past expectations joy
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent. Sophocles
past born
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
past trying borrowed-time
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day. Steve Squyres
past people records
What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past. Stephen Malkmus
past people knows
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds. Stephen King
past
The past is obdurate.
past want
The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.
past ruthless
It's best to be ruthless with the past.
past want sometimes
It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
past firsts principles
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future. Stan Musial
past artist names
People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians. Sondre Lerche
past years air
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time—and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.. Thomas Mann
past hands homeless
If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us. Thomas Merton
past history procession
The whole past is the procession of the present. Thomas Carlyle
past names history
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
past attractive drained
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
past perfect history
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
past endurance cheerfulness
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
past men goodness
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.