Quotes about past
past government historical
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience. Karl Marx
past men brain
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
past longing
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. Judi Dench
past vision firsts
To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past. Josh Bernstein
past balance sometimes
They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride. Kristin Hannah
past tradition depends
We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past. Klaus Schulze
past age letters
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. Knut Hamsun
past government peaceful
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in the great classical liberal tradition that built the United States and bestowed on us the American heritage of individual liberty, a peaceful foreign policy, minimal government, and a free-market economy. Murray Rothbard
past giving self-improvement
The past is dead except for the life you give it Myles Munroe
past causes worship
If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.
past self-improvement your-future
You are not free until your past has no effect on your future
past uncertain uncertain-future
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. Mohsin Hamid
past years taught-us
If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs. Millicent Fenwick
past lasting-change effort
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.
past would-be debt
Italy may well be the main problem. It has benefited most from the euro by having been able to get the euro interest rate instead of what otherwise would have been its own. That would be much higher because Italy has been accumulating so much debt. In the past, Italy has inflated away its debt. The virtue of the euro is that Italy can't do it alone. A tight ECB policy wouldn't permit that to happen again. Milton Friedman
past live-in-the-moment done
You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what you're gonna do or what you can do. The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift-that's why they call it the present. Mike Ditka
past thinking comedian
I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years. Mike Birbiglia
past age firsts
Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now. J. K. Rowling
past experience events
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. H. G. Wells
past people language
The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it. H. L. Mencken
past men law
If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures. Greg Iles
past years gamer
We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years. Grace Napolitano
past insomnia president
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.
past
I've always been more interested in the future than in the past Grace Hopper
past light new-orleans
We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.
past principles batteries
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past. Gilbert Adair
past order ideas
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality. J. Robert Oppenheimer
past years ill
Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.] George Herbert
past facts paint
Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker. Georg Baselitz
past men unhappy
Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. Georg C. Lichtenberg
past imagination firsts
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. Gary Hamel
past games creating
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.
past history condemning
Every past is worth condemning. Friedrich Nietzsche