Quotes about past
past thinking world
The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation. Albert Einstein
past drink uncertain
Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
past
I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.
past interest greater
The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.
past one-direction flow
Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
past years league
The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened. Alfred Rosenberg
past thinking details
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities. Alfred North Whitehead
past errors language
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
past use-it-or-lose-it use-of-knowledge
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
past holy-ground use
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
past length-of-life progress
Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
past
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
past eternity
In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. Alfred Lord Tennyson
past keys massacres
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre. Alexander Cockburn
past done next
The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next. Aldous Huxley
past class people
What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.
past brave-new-world years
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.
past matter remember
It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
past brave-new-world thinking
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.
past shells would-be
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
past want looks
If you want to know the future, look at the past.
past power quite
We didn't have a power back in the past quite like him. Dennis Franchione
past rights america
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow. Aberjhani
past errors empowering
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
past names people
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. A. J. P. Taylor
past way rounds
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
past men burning
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. A. R. Ammons
past judging goes-on
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. A. B. Yehoshua
past thinking lessons
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. A. Bartlett Giamatti
past two bye
That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me. A. A. Milne
past accomplishment mercy
Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been. Aeschylus
past thinking justice
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own. Adrienne Rich
past gold daggers
The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself. Agatha Christie