Quotes about past
past substance world
I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances. Andrew Weil
past events future-events
The best predictor of future events is probably past events. Andre Agassi
past chaos sometimes
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. Chuck Palahniuk
past stories remember
Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up. Chuck Palahniuk
past ice-cream ideas
Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a "with-it" social register. Chuck Palahniuk
past thinking phrases
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off. Chuck Palahniuk
past way forget-the-past
Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us. Chuck Palahniuk
past way
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over. Chuck Palahniuk
past your-future our-future
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. Chuck Palahniuk
past stories invisible-monsters
When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. Chuck Palahniuk
past people stories
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. Chuck Palahniuk
past escaping denial
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial. Chuck Palahniuk
past judging honor
Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court. Chuck Grassley
past thinking
We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future. Chuck Klosterman
past voice leader
There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself. Chuck D.
past may know-how
Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you. Christopher Paolini
past belief eragon
Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon Christopher Paolini
past done repent
I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past Christopher Paolini
past broken miracle
I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature. Christopher Paolini
past guilt moments
It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I? Christopher Moore
past guilt
Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt Christopher Moore
past live-in-the-moment moments
I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past. Angelina Jolie
past two-sides people
People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love. Angelina Jolie
past destiny stronger
No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it. Angelina Jolie
past collages
In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable. Andrei Codrescu
past interesting people
In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past. David Liss
past two fire
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! David Lynch
past america political
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past. David Halberstam
past decision architect
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. Dan Brown
past lasts argument
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. Alexander Pope
past reap runner
No runner will be at a disadvantage over past participants and most will reap significant benefits.
past playing
Antonio's been playing like that for the past month. He's been playing phenomenal. Flip Saunders
past placed russians severe storage
Russians in the past had placed severe limitations on inspections at these storage sites, so this is a significant breakthrough, Richard Lugar