Quotes about past
past hopeless knows
I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast. Maggie Smith
past lasts one-thing
One thing about the past. It's likely to last.
past ifs knows
You cannot survive if you do not know the past. Oriana Fallaci
past years errors
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. Orhan Pamuk
past land
The past is always an invented land.
past years office
I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate. Olympia Snowe
past feelings style
I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone
past moments tyranny
I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.
past people identity
The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.. Oliver Sacks
past race hands
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
past cities berlin
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. Olafur Eliasson
past men gloves
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves. O. Henry
past thinking people
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. Octavia Butler
past thinking our-society
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind. Octavio Paz
past fiction-novels space
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism. Nursultan Nazarbayev
past betray
All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me. Novala Takemoto
past way succeed
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had. Novak Djokovic
past world path
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found. Novalis
past toes illusion
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. Emile Zola
past holocaust impossible
I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future. Ellen Goodman
past may heroic
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.
past discovery years
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being. Ellen Glasgow
past men hard
What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.
past law may
But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
past events theory
Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined. Ellen G. White
past action customers
New Customers come from the action of past customers Eric Ries
past simple growth
Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.
past ideas iron
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE! Erasmus Darwin
past years games
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game. Eric Alterman
past college years
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast -- give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.
past important who-we-are
Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are. Emily Giffin
past dwelling wonder
Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.
past men ironic
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die. Emily Dickinson