Quotes about past
past honor pieces
You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again. Jeff Buckley
past matter enterprise
The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was. Jeff Bezos
past able alienation
How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another? Jean-Paul Sartre
past luxury
The past is the luxury of proprietors.
past years loyal-customers
Over the last 40 years, I have built MW into a multi-billion dollar company with amazing employees and loyal customers who value the products and service they receive at MW. Over the past several months I have expressed my concerns to the Board about the direction the company is currently heading.Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the Boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the Board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer. George Zimmer
past moments
The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't. George Will
past stones doe
That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone. Jeffery Deaver
past years three
And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life. Jeffrey Archer
past men thinking
I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence. Jean Pigozzi
past
Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others. Jean-Luc Godard
past years agents
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
past moments currents
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. Jean Piaget
past men law
At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind. This belief was twice shaken in the past century; first when Russell and his successors showed how the logic men employ can be defective, and later when Freud and Piaget started to reveal the tortuous ways in which our minds actually develop.
past thank-god tonight
I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future. Jim Gibbons
past balance way
We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance. Jerry Spinelli
past artist giving
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade. Jerry Saltz
past lessons cherish
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. Jerome Hines
past history cost
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. Miguel de Cervantes
past sight discovery
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder, we will forever uncover the secrets of the universe - one by one. Neil deGrasse Tyson
past forever facts
You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.
past origin-of-life events
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.
past thinking self
There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.
past doors break-through
The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today. Neil Gaiman
past voice library
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.
past administration republican
I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations. John O. Brennan
past hands duchess
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious. John Webster
past relief employment
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. John Thorn
past perfect may
There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past. John Robinson
past thinking work-out
I work out. I try to work out every day. That keeps me in the moment, which is great. Keeps my head from thinking about the future and the past too much. I love working out. That really helps me a lot. John Rzeznik
past greatness people
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory John Steinbeck
past people three
You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.
past wrath knows
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
past thinking doe
I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians. John Sebastian