Quotes about past
past joy lasts
Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past. James Montgomery
past mind world
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. James Martineau
past grace saws
God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love. James Macdonald
past government doubt
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. James Madison
past government practice
We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced by future contrivances; and both by that and a common knowledge of human affairs, that it would nourish unceasing animosities, and not improbably terminate in serious interruptions of the public tranquility.
past choices go-back-in-time
There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out. Taylor Momsen
past forgotten
Future is everything that past has forgotten. Soren Kierkegaard
past remember made
...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
past long individual
In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.
past unhappy-person persons
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
past people pleasure
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
past immaturity earth
It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity? Stephenie Meyer
past revolution sometimes
Maybe Italians are a bit less restrained: they can be less rigid and sometimes they stray a little in their ways of dressing for work, which is something that is always linked to the formal suit. What we like of both Italians and the British is that they love to dress well. In the past ten years we have witnessed a revolution in the menswear market.
past violence affair
Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future. Thomas Pynchon
past light long
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there. Thomas Hardy
past thinking tomorrow
Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?
past men views
No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. Thomas B. Macaulay
past men views
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
past lust mind
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes
past men
Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.
past times-past prudence
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
past world impossible
I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then. Thomas Love Peacock
past night air
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
past love-is light
We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being. Thomas Keating
past fool ownership
Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
past thinking finding-yourself
When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I dont know what to say, really. Vince Clarke
past men law
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life. Vilfredo Pareto
past guy behave
If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you. Russell Crowe
past people realizing
People don't realize that the future is just now, but later. Russell Brand
past thinking trying
When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming. Rose Kennedy
past technology thinking
I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past. Ronnie Dunn
past mma taught
Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious. Ronda Rousey
past proud way
I thought that I was mutant somehow. I eventually realized that I have a very natural look, and that's what God gave me, and I'm proud of it. It was kind of a way for me to get past that as well.