Quotes about past
past positively
Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse. John Dewey
past history imagination
Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. John Dewey
past bored discipline
Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions. John Carroll
past men eugenics
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. John Calvin
past want disputes
I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes. John Bercow
past
You can't really live in the past because the present is always present. John Benjamin Hickey
past dying grows
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. John Berger
past relation
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past John Berger
past wish prisoner
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences. John Berger
past reality history
Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. Johan Huizinga
past simple history
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form. Johan Huizinga
past squares america
He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind. Johan Huizinga
past history interpretation
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. Johan Huizinga
past would-be soup
My intention with The Soup was to hopefully follow in the footsteps of past hosts, like Greg Kinnear. The pedigree of that show was really good and if it could just get me into some of those audition rooms I've always wanted to get into that I could not get into, then I would be very happy. Joel McHale
past shooting shots
I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again. Joe Hill
past people different
I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby... Jimmy Wales
past worry giving
Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about. George Allen
past get-away wanted
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it. Georg Solti
past media organization
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations. Frank Church
past times-past fascinated
I am fascinated with times past. Frank Darabont
past historical musical
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
past years pitcher
Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter. Gaylord Perry
past said where-she-went
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out. Gayle Forman
past ears sound
What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear Gayle Forman
past people actors
Part of you wants to look over at the people watching and say, "Not bad, huh? Me and Clint Eastwood." But you have to get past that and just be an actor. Gary Cole
past light causes
The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be. Lord Acton
past history obstacles
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. Lord Acton
past doe
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future. Lord Acton
past differences design
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it. Edward de Bono
past decision design
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future Edward de Bono
past goodness collectives
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. Edward Bond
past ideas giving
Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant. Edith Hamilton
past realization affirmation
I don't pray for anything, but I have used affirmations in the past a few times. They are really a bit more like realizations in that on some level they have already happened. Eckhart Tolle