Quotes about past
past ends finding-out-the-truth
The future would end up finding out the truth about the past. Paulo Coelho
past people our-past
People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.
past people risk
Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.
past
It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
past doors names
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.
past people marketing
In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing. Peter Sotos
past reality practice
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now. Peter Matthiessen
past predicting
Charts are great for predicting the past. Peter Lynch
past peaceful ira
What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic. Peter Hain
past earth environment
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. Rachel Carson
past healthy want
I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70. Questlove
past people long
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? R. A. Salvatore
past america historical
I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre. Quentin Tarantino
past years people
What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalities that are not being accounted for. Prince Charles
past impact long
We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
past wind two
Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin. Pocahontas
past oblivion over-it
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. Pliny the Elder
past political narrative
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. Phyllis Schlafly
past sacred lineage
An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony. Pope Benedict XVI
past too-much
The present is burthened too much with the past. Nathaniel Hawthorne
past appreciate too-much
The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.
past architecture should
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. Moshe Safdie
past giving progress
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die. Victor Hugo
past reign planning
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
past echoes reflexes
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
past thinking today
I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future. Vernon Davis
past deceit ends
... there is no end to the deceits of the past ... Vernon Lee
past simple men
At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom. Richard Bach
past world body
In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia. Robert Fogel
past men impact
Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or 'cliometric' history-born of the marriage contracted between historical problems and advanced statistical analysis, with economic theory as bridesmaid and the computer as best man-has made tremendous advances in the last generation.
past years feelings
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling Robert Fulghum
past two bird
Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere. Robert Bly
past enough
It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future. Rita Levi-Montalcini