Quotes about past
past people doubt
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so. William James
past self copiers
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
past dragons stories
You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave. William Finnegan
past trying fiction
The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now. William Gibson
past men color
I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality. Will Durant
past rely-upon police
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
past found flourishing
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
past
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
past thinking hype
I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. Sarah Palin
past remember remembering-the-past
He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.
past answers today
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live. Sarah Brightman
past up-to-you different
the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen. Sara Zarr
past enough hard
Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's. Sarah Addison Allen
past fallen
She'd fallen into the best part of her past.
past yesterday-and-today matter
Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Sarah Ban Breathnach
past world
Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
past simple comfort
Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to.
past history existence
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. Samuel Butler
past air heaven
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
past use deny
What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know. Samuel Beckett
past years cameras
Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one. Ryan Phillippe
past lust gold
I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold. Waris Ahluwalia
past compare
It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present. W. P. Kinsella
past layers determined
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing. W. G. Sebald
past way normal
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.
past government people
The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed. W. S. Merwin
past thinking visions-of-the-future
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce. Virginia Gildersleeve
past reality men
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely. W. H. Auden
past cheerful population
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
past men history
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
past trying wish
How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found! William Cowper
past roulette damage
The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews -- that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage. Wayne Hale
past guilt moments
Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment. Wayne Dyer