Quotes about past
past thinking visions-of-the-future
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce. Virginia Gildersleeve
past reality men
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely. W. H. Auden
past cheerful population
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
past men history
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
past roulette damage
The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews -- that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage. Wayne Hale
past guilt moments
Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment. Wayne Dyer
past looks condemnation
To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.
past thinking animal
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past. Townes Van Zandt
past community trying
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color. Van Jones
past trying borders
I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders. Tyra Banks
past reality pimp
I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride. Tyga
past negative action
At no time in the past, now or in the future has or will Russia take any part in actions aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government. I'm talking about something else right now - when someone does this, the outcome is very negative. Libya's state is disintegrated, Iraq's territory is flooded with terrorists, it looks like the scenario will be the same for Syria, and you know what the situation is in Afghanistan. Vladimir Putin
past littles today
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now. William Glasser
past numbers doctors
But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past. William Graham Sumner
past yesterday thunderstorm
it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday. William H. Gass
past journey hiking
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. William Golding
past years soldier
I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years. Wilhelm Keitel
past spirit revelations
Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation... Wassily Kandinsky
past games evil
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
past evil suffering
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted. W. Somerset Maugham
past drunk impossible
I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past. Vladimir Nabokov
past derivatives originality
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
past imagination trying
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
past years class
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.
past night hands
...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.
past seductive brain
Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.
pasta cheese one-thing
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again. Yotam Ottolenghi
past cash looks
Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future. Young Jeezy
past people wish
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past. Yanis Varoufakis
past technology brave-new-world
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.
past mind elements
The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental. Wyndham Lewis
past preparation each-day
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well. William Osler
past weather tomorrow
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.