Quotes about past
past reality men
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. George Eliot
past thinking grace
The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed. Franz Wright
past artist age
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age. Franz Marc
past talking car
In my opinion, there's this new phenomenon where guys used to talk about cars a lot in the past. But, more and more it's becoming them talking about recording studios. Fred Armisen
past maturity order
The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ. Frank Griswold
past swag identity
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past. Frank Knight
past thread draws
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on. George Herbert
past years humans
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history. Chris Hedges
past care helping
But what is past my help is past my care. Francis Beaumont
past together form
You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. Francis Ford Coppola
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 experience might
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them. George Washington
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.