Quotes about past
past hands differences
The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror. James Wolfensohn
past television our-society
Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past. Janet Street-Porter
past average years
By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then. Janet Yellen
past gains majority
The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority
past complexity our-past
... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities. Janet Leigh
past ignorant sin
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. Jane Smiley
past punishment choices
The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy. Richard G. Scott
past people let-me
People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again. Ricky Gervais
past childhood understanding
Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship. Brian Weiss
past thinking looks
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.' Brian Eno
past years justice
I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen. Bram Fischer
past safety assurance
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. Bram Stoker
past loving-life pace
Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you. Boris Kodjoe
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past way incredibles
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. Bob Dylan
past night air
Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there
past should worst
You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.
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.
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.