Quotes about past
past phones doors
I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there. Robert Smith
past quoting pointing
It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future. Robert Plant
past thinking creative
I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.
past stones stepping-stones
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
past ears bells
One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second. Satchel Paige
past names challenges
Obviously, I'm still building a name and reputation for myself. The stigmas that come with my past will remain there for quite some time, but I'm not afraid to challenge those things, and I never have been. Sasha Grey
past ideas world
What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea. Sargent Shriver
past want
I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it. Sarah Waters
past life-is ifs
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never. Wendell Berry
past heritage harvest
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future. Wendell Phillips
past growth revolution
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
past hatred innovation
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.
past needs assumption
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
past
The older you get the more you live in the past Walter Mosley
past thinking world
Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem. Walter Raleigh
past essence survival
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo. Wade Davis
past would-be enough
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future. W. Somerset Maugham
past evil suffering
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.
past drunk impossible
I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past. Vladimir Nabokov
past derivatives originality
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
past imagination trying
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
past years class
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.
past night hands
...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.
past seductive brain
Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.
pasta cheese one-thing
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again. Yotam Ottolenghi
past cash looks
Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future. Young Jeezy
past people wish
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past. Yanis Varoufakis
past technology brave-new-world
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.
past mind elements
The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental. Wyndham Lewis
past preparation each-day
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well. William Osler
past weather tomorrow
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
past remembrance world
She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray
past age faces
You read the past in some old faces.