Quotes about past
past people changed
I don't feel like I've really changed. Maybe I have let people see more of me than in the past. Jeff Gordon
past years long
I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.
past opportunity thinking
We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think. Jean Smart
past government color
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future. Jean Rostand
past men wish
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
past bird helping
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some. Jean Rhys
past practice sentimental
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
past feelings england
I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past. Jez Butterworth
past yellow trying
He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past. Jhumpa Lahiri
past intuition trying
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. Graham Hancock
past comforting needed
Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it. Giovanni Boccaccio
past compassion suffering
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
past years careers
I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful Giovanni Ribisi
past years trade
I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything. Gil Gerard
past dwelling perspective
The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other ... Harriet Martineau
past strange sometimes
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes! Harriet Beecher Stowe
past two soul
The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.
past reality today
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
past thinking facts
I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'. Harper Lee
past love-is thinking
I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future. Gregory David Roberts
past years discovery
During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together. Ian Stewart
past thinking government
I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too? Ian Somerhalder
past careers ladders
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that. Iain Duncan Smith
past people come-up
I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in. Hugh Bonneville
past tough-times challenges
If you are having a tough time today, push past those boundaries, because by challenging your fears today will become the strength you feel tomorrow... DO WHAT YOU FEAR, DON'T FEAR WHAT YOU DO. Hrithik Roshan
past views history
George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people. Howard Zinn
past compassion supposing-that
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
past careers balls
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them. Hank Aaron
past treasure different
The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought. Hannah Arendt
past lost significance
Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
past order needs
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.
past long appearance
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
past able oblivion
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.