Quotes about past
past hands fighter
I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
past people ears
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
past practice development
Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it. George Santayana
past infancy-is history
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
past race savages
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past. G. Stanley Hall
past men possible-and-impossible
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
past events analogies
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy. G. M. Trevelyan
past history historical
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.
past men fifty
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty G. H. Hardy
past worry locks
Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice! Fyodor Dostoevsky
past men artist
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche
past biodiversity
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future. Frans Lanting
past your-future boundless
If your past is limited, your future is boundless. Franklin Pierce
past adults youth
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present. Franz Grillparzer
past dust rights
We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all. Jeanette Winterson
past long needs
She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you’d done in a past life you didn’t need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn’t be ready to do now.
past broken secret
Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?
past forget easy
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
past fiction would-be
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
past narrative way
Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.
past journey stories
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.
past self differences
Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference.
past reality hands
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?
past moments enough
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough
past years path
First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path. Jim Cooper
past years meditation
But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life. Jet Li
past president dinner
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
past games careers
I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games. Jerry West
past imagination literature
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. Jerzy Kosinski
past play point-break
It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly. Jeri Ryan
past thinking years
I have some pretty wonderful friendships, so that's been really good for me. In the past year, I've really worked on that. I think when I was married, I let my friendships go. I think people thought, "Oh, because she's married now, she's so happy all the time." But I really was just isolated in my house. Jen Kirkman
past life-is
My life is not just about the past. Jeannette Walls
past interesting people
Interesting people always have a past.