Quotes about past
past drunk bored
Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much. Jack Kerouac
past rivers curves
As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there. Jack Finney
past two america
The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington? J. C. Watts
past people bovine
Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them. J. B. Priestley
past thinking people
I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it. Isabel Allende
past reality confusion
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
past white goal
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves. Guy Laliberte
past action havens
I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me. Guy Pearce
past racism tough-times
You expect to cop a bit wherever you go. In the past there hasn't been any racism or any racist comments that I've seen. I'm expecting a tough time, as we get everywhere we go, but racism hasn't been a problem before. Glenn McGrath
past planes notes
The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane. Glenn Gould
past english-history two
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times. Gertrude Himmelfarb
past liberty libertarian
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past. Harry Browne
past majesty done
If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past. Harold MacMillan
past accountability insult
It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it. Grant-Lee Phillips
past ran
I never got ran past like that in my life.
past prices
In Reno, prices have really jumped over the past month.
past strong taken
In past years we have had an upper-classman who has taken the lead. We really don't have that strong personality this year. These individuals will be leaned upon to get us through this.
past surprised
I really thought we were past it and I think he thought so, too. It actually surprised me yesterday.
past sight discovery
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder, we will forever uncover the secrets of the universe - one by one. Neil deGrasse Tyson
past forever facts
You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.
past origin-of-life events
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.
past thinking self
There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.
past doors break-through
The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today. Neil Gaiman
past voice library
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.
past administration republican
I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations. John O. Brennan
past hands duchess
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious. John Webster
past relief employment
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. John Thorn
past perfect may
There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past. John Robinson
past thinking work-out
I work out. I try to work out every day. That keeps me in the moment, which is great. Keeps my head from thinking about the future and the past too much. I love working out. That really helps me a lot. John Rzeznik
past greatness people
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory John Steinbeck
past people three
You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.
past wrath knows
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
past thinking doe
I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians. John Sebastian