Quotes about past
past world superstitions
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. Anne Rice
past fire vision
Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt
past waiting trapped
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. Anna Freud
past times-past age
I am 46, and have been for some time past. Anita Brookner
past discovery ideas
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts. Andre Weil
past long way
I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward. Andrea Arnold
past men body
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. Andre Maurois
past men eggs
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
past trying ankles
In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be Andrew Flintoff
past history historian
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. Ambrose Bierce
past mirrors too-much
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
past yesterday age
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
past feet stuck
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Anthony Kiedis
past thinking lines
I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response. Alison Brie
past race talking
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. Alice Walker
past people therapy
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. Alice Miller
past childhood suffering
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.
past want looks
What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it". Alice Munro
past thinking years
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.
past data long
We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. Anne M. Mulcahy
past essence opposites
Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
past years yellow
Turquoise, yellow, pink, a lot of the pastel colors are some of the more popular suit colors this year. But it varies from old to young. Amy Wright
past period possibly robust seen
What we're witnessing now is possibly the most robust period of M&A that we have seen in the past 10 years.
past giving water
There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied. Alexander MacLaren
past style looks
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style. Alexander McQueen
past lasts argument
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. Alexander Pope
past politics lasts
Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
past errors needs
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
past life-is cant-change
My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past. Alex Trebek
past years able
We will certainly be focused on making sure that the prosperity we have been able to accomplish in the past 8 years under the leadership of Mr. [Barack] Obama, continues. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
past choices looks
If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present. Debbie Ford
past creative energy
As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.
past self voice
To get past your ego and its defenses you need to get quiet, be brave, and listen to your inner voices....When you embrace the messages of each aspect of your shadow, you begin to take back the power you’ve given to others and form a bond of trust with your authentic self. The voices of your unembraced qualities, when allowed into your consciousness, will bring you back into balance and harmony with your natural rhythms.