Quotes about past
past understanding erratic
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen. Terry Pratchett
past viewpoints form
The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present. Terry Eagleton
past vienna peculiar
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.
past doe truth-is
The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
past philosopher curious
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
past used
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
past wizards life-is
Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past. Terry Goodkind
past giving interesting
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. Terri Windling
past gone forgotten
There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten. Tom Robinson
past cities new-orleans
The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city. Tom Piazza
past should-have lasts
I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past Tom Petty
past care my-future
God take care of him, because he's my past and my future Simone Elkeles
past taught-us appreciate
We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.
past alcohol news
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest. Simone de Beauvoir
past action regard
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
past entering eternity
Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity. Simone Weil
past europe civilization
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
past talking vision
Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past. Simon Sinek
past challenges stories
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
past history greek
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present. Simon Schama
past play ipads
I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?' Simon Hoggart
past lunch alive
I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box... Rick Riordan
past office one-day
One day offices will be a thing of the past Richard Branson
past thinking albums
I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.
past achievement progress
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements. Swami Vivekananda
past causes effects
There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.
past today causes
The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.
past issues people
I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is. Tim Gunn
past ideas nomad
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. Stephen Gardiner
past afternoon
The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past. Stephen Fry
past lessons gaps
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. Spiro T. Agnew
past dust mind
Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day? Sri Chinmoy
past dawn noon
Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future Sri Aurobindo