Quotes about past
past looks condemnation
To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present. Wayne Dyer
past thinking animal
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past. Townes Van Zandt
past community trying
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color. Van Jones
past trying borders
I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders. Tyra Banks
past reality pimp
I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride. Tyga
past yesterday bored
Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past. Walt Disney
past nostalgic loses
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
past
Future is not extrapolation of past Vinod Khosla
past years sky
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs—out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time—chant, not of the past only, but of the future... Walt Whitman
past majesty vacant
The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
past waiting insightful
the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die Saul Williams
past people labels
The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have been Revolutionaries and Tories regardless of the labels of the past and present. Regardless of whether they were Federalists, Democrat-Republicans, Whigs, Know-Nothings, Free Soilers, Unionists or Confederates, Populists, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Communists, or Progressives. They have been and are profiteers and patriots. They have been and are conservatives, liberals, and radicals. Saul Alinsky
past world headings
I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride. Sarah Dessen
past should-have secret
This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
past way ends
The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
past chance this-life
But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.
past together world
No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
past remember-you remembers-you
Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
past faces doe
It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future". Sandra Brown
past decision tough
[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public. Sandra Day O'Connor
past
I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it." Sandra Cisneros
past remember instant
We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living. Rose Wilder Lane
past dwell-on-the-past persons
I'm a person who really doesn't dwell on the past. Ronnie Lott
past names patient
Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past. Rohinton Mistry
past hands europe
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past Roger Scruton
past want live-in-the-present
Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past. Roger Ebert
past night support
There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance. Robin McKinley
past night water
My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the "extra" buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night.
past records made
In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. Robert Wyatt
past california towns
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s. Robert Towne
past enough endeavor
Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough. Robert Silverberg
past garden social-values
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us Robert Smithson
past causes remember
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future