Quotes about past
past half symbiosis
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute. William S. Burroughs
past spain bounds
Like Spain, I am bound to the past.
past views curiosity
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters William Maxwell
past sustenance
There's no sustenance in the past. Violette Leduc
past years wish
When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time. Vinny Testaverde
past organization broken
We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past. Woodrow Wilson
past college men
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
past different-experiences littles
Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started. Woody Allen
past differences cases
Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases. William Whewell
past ebola two
We're very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this sort of thing happening-a person coming from West Africa, they were healthy at the time they traveled, but got sick here.
past praise
Theirs is the present who can praise the past. William Shenstone
past
You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is. William Shatner
past cameras taking-pictures
I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.
past gone knows
The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's all that's knowable and even the present isn't knowable. The present becomes the past... so you really don't know anything.
past thinking fire
We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.
past eight way
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. William Nicholson
past gone our-past
Our past has gone into history. William McKinley
past bridges america
I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future. William J. Clinton
past people doubt
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so. William James
past self copiers
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
past dragons stories
You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave. William Finnegan
past trying fiction
The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now. William Gibson
past men color
I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality. Will Durant
past rely-upon police
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
past found flourishing
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
past
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
past thinking hype
I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. Sarah Palin
past remember remembering-the-past
He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.
past answers today
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live. Sarah Brightman
past up-to-you different
the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen. Sara Zarr
past enough hard
Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's. Sarah Addison Allen
past fallen
She'd fallen into the best part of her past.
past yesterday-and-today matter
Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Sarah Ban Breathnach