Quotes about past
past whole
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. Thomas Carlyle
past way causes
In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it. Tony Iommi
past done becoming
Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what weve done in the past. Tony Levin
past next-week years
He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him. Tony Kornheiser
past democracy doe
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past. Tony Judt
past forget forgotten
Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected. Tony Campolo
past probable-cause hard
It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.
past stuff helping
That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help. Tommy Lee
past thinking ideas
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. Tommy Lee Jones
past doors feelings
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos. Tom Wolfe
past years done
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years. Steven Spielberg
past average years
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago. Steven Johnson
pasta salmon brown
Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time. Steven Gerrard
past sight darkness
Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness. Steven Erikson
past banjos capture
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. Steve Martin
past way remember
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it. Steve Berry
past possibility future-possibilities
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. Stephen Hawking
past people matter
But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters. Stephen Harper
past canada feds
It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.
past idiot persons
A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation. Stephen King
past asymmetry remember
Why do we remember the past, but not the future?
past technology years
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century.
past giving disorder
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
past thinking years
I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great. Stanley Clarke
past men unions
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions. Stanley Baldwin
past looks valuable
Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present. Spencer Johnson
past people feelings
I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past. Spike Jonze
past knowing experience
Power is knowing your past. Spike Lee
past hands awards
In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw. Sigourney Weaver
past history not-interested
Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past. Sigmund Freud
past rome cities
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.
past remember bondage
Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
past trying arbitrary
We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth. Shirley Franklin