Quotes about past
past people identity
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all. Bob Dylan
past want my-past
I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past. Billy Corgan
past escaping years
The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia. Boris Yeltsin
past people forgive-me
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
past worry sage
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way. Bodhidharma
past thinking years
I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago. Bobby Fischer
past truth-is exes
The truth is that everybody has a past and everybody has an ex. Bridget Regan
past evil done
Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God. Brennan Manning
past places-to-live best-place
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live. Barry Humphries
past thinking
I think it's a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we've seen in the past. Barry Levinson
past want records
I don't want to live on past records. Barry Gibb
past age fifty
When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face. Barbara Cartland
past thinking rights
With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'. Barbara Boxer
past errors age
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them. Arthur Schopenhauer
past expectations long
To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
past reality littles
Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.
past lessons print
I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it. Brittany Murphy
past abuse ignorant
We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.
past two erosion
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
past understanding action
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. Will Durant
past thinking different
If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different. John Powell
past events morality
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. David Hume
past knavery way
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work
past words-of-wisdom kind
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
past joy mind
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.
past giving useless
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
past ideas giving
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, 'tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate reason, why past experience and observation produces such an effect, any more than why nature alone should produce it?
past experience events
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
past mirrors faithful
When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.
past thinking impact
I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past. David Duchovny
past focus feelings
My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
past media organization
Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public. David Brock
past paradise replacements
It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more. David Brin