Quotes about past
past history historical
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves. G. M. Trevelyan
past men fifty
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty G. H. Hardy
past worry locks
Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice! Fyodor Dostoevsky
past men artist
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche
past experience lessons
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. John Quincy Adams
past bad-ass design
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. Norman Foster
past long holocaust
The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business. Norman Finkelstein
past years government
During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines. Norm Dicks
past decision machines
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past. Norbert Wiener
past years traditional
I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. Nobuo Uematsu
past years oasis
Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Noel Gallagher
past years healthy
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing today as it seldom has flourished in the past. For biologists collectively are less agreed upon the details of evolutionary mechanics than they were a scant decade ago. Superficially, it seems as if we know less about evolution than we did in 1959, the centennial year of Darwin's on the Origin of Species. Niles Eldredge
past forgiving too-late
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved. Mitch Albom
past forgive-yourself accepting
Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.
past your-past
You are not your past.
past trying persons
You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!
past years three
I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past. Mike Tomlin
past done mystery
What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery Mike Tyson
past doors want
There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.
past example action
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. Miguel de Cervantes
past history cost
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
past doubt way
The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action. Robert Herjavec
past government hands
To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both. Robert Higgs
past thinking ideas
What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past. Robert Hass
past suffering desire
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
past woe succeed
When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. Robert Herrick
past joy age
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
past legacy scrapbooking
All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it. Robert Henri
past hands rotting
A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past. Rick Riordan
past differences design
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it. Edward de Bono
past decision design
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
past goodness collectives
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. Edward Bond
past ideas giving
Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant. Edith Hamilton