Quotes about past
past media way
Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future. Billy Gibbons
past way causes
If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way. Billy Joel
past moments relentless
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new. Billy Joel
past hands people
What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand. Bill Parcells
past your-future your-past
Don't let your past dictate your future. Bill Johnson
past accomplishment honor
The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs. Bill Johnson
past your-past embrace
Embrace your past, but live for now Beyonce Knowles
past remembered
The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated. Bernhard Schlink
past smell sweat
In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved Bernhard Schlink
past israel views
There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland. Benjamin Netanyahu
past stories novelists
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Edmond de Goncourt
past years trying
I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago. Eddie Martinez
past years laughing
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh. Eddie Murphy
past cases grievance
If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined. David Horowitz
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 David Hume
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. David Hume
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. David Hume
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. David Hume
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? David Hume
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. David Hume
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. David Hume
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. David Duchovny
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
past drawing answers
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge. David Brin
past self civilization
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. David Brin
past acting the-end-of-the-day
The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you. Ben Whishaw
past opportunity names
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items. Bear Grylls
past silence
I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words. August Strindberg
past thinking order
I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America. August Wilson
past enjoy spoil
Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt. Audrey Hepburn