Quotes about past
past remember edges
The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature. V. S. Pritchett
past europe czech-republic
Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It's clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that the Czech Republic - or, in the past, Czechoslovakia - would have been one of the founding members of the EU if it hadn't been for the communist takeover in 1948. Vaclav Klaus
past issues political
My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.
past culture matter
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'. V. S. Naipaul
past
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
past magazines may
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine. Susannah McCorkle
past people seductive
It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there. Susanna Kearsley
past katniss care
I've asked you fifty questions and still have no sense of your life, your family, what you care about. They want to know about you, Katniss." "But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to time in the past!" I say. Suzanne Collins
past capitol-in-hunger-games my-future
They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!
past numbness ordinary
You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary. Tasha Alexander
past expectations joy
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent. Sophocles
past born
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
past trying borrowed-time
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day. Steve Squyres
past trying way
All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it. Steve Spurrier
past people records
What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past. Stephen Malkmus
past people knows
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds. Stephen King
past
The past is obdurate.
past want
The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.
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.
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