Quotes about past
past dvds people
The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors. Jerry Bruckheimer
past style execution
The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style. Jerry Brown
past dwelling sitting
I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future. Jennifer Aniston
past people disability
Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do. Jeanne Phillips
past long actresses
As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable. Jeanne Moreau
past fossils instinct
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. Jean Henri Fabre
past times-past noble
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. Jean Froissart
past community progress
Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow. Jean Monnet
past wish lost
What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past. Graham Swift
past laughing remembrance
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. Giacomo Casanova
past conflict mature
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free. Jim DeMint
past reality mind
Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal. Jiddu Krishnamurti
past culture tradition
All tradition is merely the past.
past
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all...
past imagination history
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. Jessamyn West
past games play
It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market (italics added)... Hindsight plays tricks on our minds... often distorts the past and encourages us to play hunches and outguess other investors, who in turn are playing the same game. For most of us, trying to beat the market leads to disastrous results... our actions lead to much lower returns than can be achieved by just staying in the market. Jeremy Siegel
past men agriculture
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings. Jeremy Rifkin
past way ashamed
We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past? Jenna Blum
past different-experiences jumping
We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell. Gilbert K. Chesterton
past important principles
We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.
past self atrocities-committed
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred. Frank Herbert
past balance arms
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
past pillow
The past is no farther away than your pillow.
past luck survival
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
past two people
Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two. Lauren Oliver
past wind broken
I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.
past layers dirt
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
past self killers
We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.
past careful ifs
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
past people waiting
For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future - I can't wait to see who you'll be. And in both cases: Thank you.
past hands trying
In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull. Alex, come back. There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.
past weight stones
The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
past simple
The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now. Larry Poons