Quotes about past
past imagination judging
Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past. Napoleon Hill
past temporary-defeat leader
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
past enemy disregard
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them. Napoleon Bonaparte
past magic needs
What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.
past years competition
We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well as facilities in the Olympic Village in an intensive and comprehensive way.
past blood drawing
Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study is juicy and gossipy, yet scrupulously researched, drawing on numerous on-the-record conversations (as well as many not-for-attribution interviews) with prominent Democrats and Clinton insiders, past and present. Lloyd Grove
past errors easier
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors. Livy
past ideas made
What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile. Lynda Barry
past evil presidential
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present. Lyndon B. Johnson
past debt creation
Any creator owes a debt to past creation. Lukas Foss
past journey want
The industry needs transforming. It’s for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey. Lucian
past people done
I've always done a lot of stunts in the past, and I sound like I'm tooting my own horn here, but I've always impressed the people I've worked with and they've let me do more and more. Lucas Till
past singers prodigies
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are. Luciano Pavarotti
past thinking mind
And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling. Louise Rennison
past swings bored
When Alani started to speak, Jackson held up a finger. In the past five minutes, he'd had more mood swings than a menopausal woman. First turned-on, then territorial, bored, aggressive and now on alert. Lori Foster
past lasts thee
Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now. Lord Byron
past one-day humans
Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?
past prophet
The best prophet of the future is the past.
past men thinking
I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless.... M. F. K. Fisher
past care oppression
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past. Malachy McCourt
past player games
There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players. Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn. Magnus Carlsen
past government lessons
The American government must finally learn lessons from the past. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
past learn-from-the-past
Everyone must learn from the past.
past men life-is
All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
past simple men
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all. Mahatma Gandhi
past men faults
There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.
past redemption sin
I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.
past looks feels
The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.
past roots honor
If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
past journey history
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them. Freya Stark
past people use
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.
past discovery years
New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate. Fred Upton
past going-away i-can
I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family... Frank McCourt