Quotes about past
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.
past history looks
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. E. P. Thompson
past people labyrinth
Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind. E. O. Wilson
past clouds students
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. E. M. Forster
past innovation needs
Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them. Drew Gilpin Faust
past class next
On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next. Douglas Rushkoff
past race people
People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being. Don DeLillo
past nostalgia rage
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
past talking fading
There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
past language amenities
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
past may way
The past is the best way to suppose what may come. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
past looks function
The function of posterity is to look after itself. Dylan Thomas
past important lessons
It's important to learn the right lessons from the past. Douglas Alexander
past careers goal
The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances. Doug Stanhope
past challenges levels
I don't like being in the UK for every other reason aside from the show. It's aesthetically uncomfortable to me on almost every level for reasons that might sound petty but I can't get past. The audiences are far more challenging and while I wouldn't say I prefer it, I certainly need it to ward off my inherent laziness.
past car feelings
When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his. Douglas Adams
past errors blame
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.
past differences mind
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
past self filters
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. Doris Kearns Goodwin
past two forever
You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime. Dale Carnegie
past interesting people
In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting. Crispin Glover
past trials ifs
If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop? Craig Shirley
past cease ifs
The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live. Craig McCaw
past reality thinking
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future. Andy Griffith
past blessing eight
You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it's an honor and it's something that makes the day that you're living a lot more valuable Andrew McMahon
past pleasant interruptions
The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.
past two arms
Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past. Ally Carter
past car waiting
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn. Allen Ginsberg
past paris wonderful
You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.