Quotes about past
past listening might
The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full. Adam Gopnik
past wells futurist
The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past. Ada Leverson
past opportunity fortune
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind. Abraham Cowley
past compassion names
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless. Abraham Joshua Heschel
past looks whining
Stop whining; start enjoying. And when you look back at the past, make sure you're smiling. Alex Smith
past thinking creating
I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someones past, whether youre portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you. Alex Pettyfer
past atrocities failing
It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
past analysis honest
There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.
past ungrateful favors
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
past years today
Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today. Alberto Giacometti
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 symphony listening
When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity... Claude Debussy
past ideas race
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. Claude Levi-Strauss
past reality years
While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.
past thinking feelings
I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it. Daniel Radcliffe
past years realization
There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.
past thinking drunk
If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk. Daniel Craig
past feet
When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present. Dan Harris
past years snow
What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set Countee Cullen
past slides stories
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. Cory Doctorow
past age compare
I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore. Courteney Cox
past done littles
O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last. Clive Barker
past thinking tyrants
We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody somewhere won't argue is actually a good, no idiocy that hasn't got its perfectly serious defenders, and no tyrant, past or present - no matter how bloody - without some bunch of zealot schmucks to defend him or his reputation till the last breath in their bodies - or preferably somebody else's.
past kind chin-up
I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like. Clint Eastwood
past police fields
Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field. Dusty Baker
past judgment enjoyable
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past. Douglas Hurd
past ideas judgement
There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
past resources finite
The past is a finite resource. Douglas Coupland
past phones ideas
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
past machines bulls
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
past voice hair
TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it's about your voice. And finally the report, what you're actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair.