Quotes about past
past recognise happenings
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. Helen Dunmore
past ifs
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
past time-flies done
Time flies, and what is past is done.
past media soul
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
past longing something-new
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
past history destroyed
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
past world daring
The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.
past shining mind
At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
past years lucky
I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me. Joe Wright
past celtic-park want
It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.
past
The past doesn't buy you much. Joe Gibbs
past directors prime
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. Joe Eszterhas
past fiction anthropology
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. Joan D. Vinge
past genealogy seeds
The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. Joan Didion
past land somewhere-else
The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.
past reality giving
I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation. Joan Jett
past cheerful language
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. Jimmy Breslin
past wind names
Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last. Jimi Hendrix
past rest-of-your-life forget
FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE! Eric Thomas
past men years
The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne and His train still fills the temple. He still walks on the wings of the wind, He still rides on the backs of the mighty cherubim, and He still is the Triumphant Champion from Calvary. All hell still bends to His will, and sin and death have lost their hold on all who rest in the shadow of His presence. And the God who calmed storms, raised up dead men to life, and multiplied fishes and loaves to feed thousands is the same God we have today. Eric Ludy
past government understanding
Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low. Eric Liu
past way eyeliner
I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way. Emma Stone
past average law
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law. Emma Goldman
past swings balance
I know there's a balance/I see it when I swing past. John Mellencamp
past president libertarian
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian. John McCain
past
We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.
past people enemy
[Hillary Clinton] was saying, "We never going to do anything in Iraq, we're not going to do anything in Syria." Enemies, do whatever you want. Continue the largest humanitarian crisis, 7 million people displaced refugees. Do all this. We're not going to do anything. That is the type of stuff that is been happening for the past 7 1/2 years under President [Barack] Obama.
past proud might
Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment. John Jakes
past moments abyss
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. John Jeremiah Sullivan
past men civilization
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. John Jay Chapman
past people important
One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful. John Hope Franklin
past cities denver
Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past. John Hickenlooper
past museums amusing
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. John Hodgman