Quotes about past
past heaven world
While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Oliver Goldsmith
past grudge
I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past. Margaret Atwood
past
A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
past light voice
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.
past ice feet
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.
past doors closed-doors
The past is a closed door.
past animal knows
God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.
past stories care
All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.
past habit quaint
I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
past echoes darkness
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
past looks vertigo
He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.
past my-past
I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
past danger recollection
Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past. Marcus Tullius Cicero
past age aging
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
past years giving
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
past men yield
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul
past greek males
It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.
past trouble pleasant
It is pleasant to recall past troubles.
past remembrance sorrow
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
past thinking old-things
I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things. Marc Almond
past pops chasing
You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.
past thinking opposites
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
past want complexity
Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past. Marc Benioff
past thinking years
I wanted to lose weight when it was my time to lose weight, not because someone's calling me out for it. I've been called the Fat Kardashian Sister for the past ten years. But I could have gone and gotten gastric [bypass surgery] or done liposuction or whatever and I did not feel the need to do that, and I didn't think - I sincerely didn't think anything was "wrong with me." Khloe Kardashian
past my-past bits
My past is a bit checkered. Kid Rock
past thinking views
History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film. Ken Loach
past years ill
Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.] George Herbert
past facts paint
Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker. Georg Baselitz
past men unhappy
Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. Georg C. Lichtenberg
past imagination firsts
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. Gary Hamel
past long important
In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.
past games creating
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.
past history condemning
Every past is worth condemning. Friedrich Nietzsche