Quotes about past
past years effort
When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important. Peter Senge
past greatness our-future
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness. Pierre Trudeau
past statistics structure
The past has revealed to me the structure of the future. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
past age earth
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
past race gossip
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. Phyllis McGinley
past men deterioration
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time... Rachel Carson
past reality numbers
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.
past promise remember
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
past self lust
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere. Rabindranath Tagore
past
The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.
past rivers house
I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.
past insight
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight. Plato
past age happenings
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all. Terence McKenna
past thinking years
I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.
past hands flavor
My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader. Teju Cole
past australia people
The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that. Ted Koppel
past depth nightfall
Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast. Ted Hughes
past repentance-and-forgiveness atonement
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. Ted Chiang
past want keep-going
I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward. Ted Danson
past wish transition
Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ? Randall Jarrell
past dry-bones generations
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? Ralph Waldo Emerson
past transition moments
Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.
past soul self-reliance
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
past slave plunge
Be not the slave of your own past.
past optimism today
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
past snakes history
Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
past focus care
I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it. Sebastian Vettel
past auras mystery
There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past. Scarlett Johansson
past ideas attachment
And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new. Shunryu Suzuki
past
Time goes from present to past.
past danger advise
Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers. Shimon Peres
past israel stronger
Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.
past years acting
But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman Shelley Duvall