Quotes about past
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 stories
The past is just a story we tell ourselves. Spike Jonze
past people feelings
I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.
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
past thinking firsts
You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7. Shirley MacLaine
past forgiving stronger
The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know. Shawn Colvin
past two eight
I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman. Shawn Ashmore
past worry guilt
Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change. Shailene Woodley
past time-travel
Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel. Steven Moffat
past giving understanding
Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action. Steven Brust
past rocks rock-and-roll
Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter. Steven Adler
past data two
[I]n the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong. Steven Pinker
past opportunity reality
I am very pleased with the progress of the new CBS Corporation. The Company's rapid pace of change and innovative approach to emerging business opportunities can be seen in the many strategic announcements we have made over these past few months. The more focused and more nimble organization we sought to create has become a reality and that aggressive spirit of excellence and innovation will continue to benefit shareholders for many years to come. Sumner Redstone
past humanity world
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity. Sun Myung Moon
past want fans
Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music. Steven Van Zandt
past records secure
The past is gained, secure, and on record. Robert Browning
past years people
What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino the next- is that a lot of people in the church want to be entertained, and people in casinos want to be ministered to. That's hard to understand, but I see a hunger in the world that I don't see in the church. Ricky Skaggs
past goal planning
I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past. Richard Simmons
past people forgiving
People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.