Quotes about past
past opportunity thinking
We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think. Jean Smart
past government color
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future. Jean Rostand
past men wish
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
past bird helping
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some. Jean Rhys
past practice sentimental
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
past balance way
We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance. Jerry Spinelli
past artist giving
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade. Jerry Saltz
past lessons cherish
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. Jerome Hines
past saving eras
When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new. Jeffrey Kluger
past people special
Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence. Jeffrey Eugenides
past moon blue
The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life. Jill McCorkle
past innovation novelty
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
past rights order
This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Jesse Helms
past way photographer
I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed. Jennifer Lawrence
past looks models
If you don't look like an airbrushed model ... you have to look past it. You look how you look. What are you going to do?
past years nurse
In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out instead of just one. There are so many different kinds of happiness, not just the one you learned about when you were 5 years old. Jennifer Lopez
past pay exam
I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium. Jeffrey Tate
past america canada
Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history. Jean Chretien
past ideas being-real
It's more important than ever to define yourself in terms of what you stand for rather than what you make, because what you make is going to become outmoded faster than it has at any time in the past. ...hang on to the idea of who you are as a company, and focus not on what you do, but on what you could do. By being really clear about what you stand for and why you exist, you can see what you could do with a much more open mind. You enhance your ability to adapt to change. James C. Collins
past achievement competitors
Your only competitors are your past achievements. James Cameron
past giving forever
We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them. James A. Garfield
past long horrible
The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly. James A. Baldwin
past men black
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
past cracks use
To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
past other-worlds civilization
The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday. Jacques Yves Cousteau
past years safety
It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins. Jackie Stewart
past challenges mind
For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
past tears care
Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters. Jackie Kennedy
past important today
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. Christopher Lasch
past looks prison-life
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
past years yesterday
But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not perhaps — quite certainly: it will come. Christopher Isherwood
past
The past is just something that's over.
past important hope-for-the-future
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now. George Harrison