Quotes about past
past people want
People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them. Sandra Bernhard
past mind sorrow
Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future. Samuel Johnson
past political politics
He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.
past purpose progression
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
past roots conversation
Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out. Sarah Orne Jewett
past roots history
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
past night lasts
What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below. Wallace Stevens
past sailing cinema
There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on. Vittorio De Sica
past together-again understood
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. Willa Cather
past training injury
I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training. Warren Cuccurullo
past drunk sometimes
I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk. Warren Ellis
past thinking blessing
I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth. Warren Buffett
past important records
It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial...
past earning assets
The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.
past blood company
We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.
past my-past my-future
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. Vladimir Horowitz
past littles dimensions
To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence. Will Oldham
past feelings kind
I have a mantra that kind of explains my feelings on this subject, which is, "The past is the present is the future." When you're recording something, you're making something that will exist in the future.
past thinking light
I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can represent. I also think they're a terrific listening experience. Putting them out this way was a way of trying to maintain and nurture the relationship with the audience and also shine a light on the recent past, because we are so apt to be forgetful as human beings that there was such a thing as a recent past. These are some of the reasons for making this record.
past guilt tiny
Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past Wayne Dyer
past people track
Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes. They're belief systems that keep you from being able to become all that you are intended to become. They're impediments to reaching God-realization, or Tao-centeredness. People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past. Byron Katie speaks about this: Who would you be without your story? Carlos Castaneda used to say if you don't have a story, you don't have to live up to it. So get rid of your story.
past wallowing break-your-heart
You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.
past vocabulary finding-yourself
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'
past world moments
There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.
past showing-up making-peace
If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.
past disappear
Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably. Walter Benjamin
past choices age
There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in. Virginia Woolf
past white long
She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.
past feet giving
With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.
past mrs-dalloway
for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;
past design research
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past. William Bernbach
past past-present-future past-present
I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me. William Blake
past vision future-leaders
Create your future from your future, not your past. Werner Erhard