Quotes about past
past events development
By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives. Alan Greenspan
past race nuclear-disarmament
History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background. Alan Bullock
past order years
For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order. Alan Brinkley
past religion today
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present. Aiden Wilson Tozer
past done worship
We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.
past payroll-tax security-systems
Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system. Chris Chocola
past magic moments
Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present Chogyam Trungpa
past threatened
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
pasta sauce taste
My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can just about cook from scratch. So those are what I like to cook, as well as roasted potatoes and chicken. Anything that tastes alright. Chiwetel Ejiofor
past kraken apples
Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites. China Mieville
past bored stuff
I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.
past timing divine
Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past. Cheryl Richardson
past political feelings
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. Chen Shui-bian
past years next-year
Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date. Cher
past literature influence
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
past artist historical-value
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present Charles Baudelaire
past reality artist
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.
past prologue
The past is prologue. William Shakespeare
past shame falsehood
Past all shame, so past all truth.
past reason enjoy
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated
past miracle
They say miracles are past.
past slaughterhouse-five alive
...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. Kurt Vonnegut
past drawing errors
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. Edmund Burke
past age complaining
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
past men decision
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.
past giving promise
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions. Eckhart Tolle
past ego important
For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.
past quality degrees
If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.
past keys desire
When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.
past names identity
Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.
past ego mind
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?
past keys needs
When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.
past psychological-needs identity
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment