Quotes about past
past moments pondering
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always. Mark Twain
past years medicine
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions. Mark Twain
past men land
In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. Mark Twain
past history doe
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Mark Twain
past history facts
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored. Mark Twain
past firsts good-times
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it. Mark Twain
past thinking fishing
Do one thing every day that scares you...Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own...Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. Mary Schmich
past motive prove
Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
past quiet moments
Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
past facts forgotten
There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.
past destiny men
I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years Martin Heidegger
past being-positive
I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive. Mark McGwire
past talking people
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. Mark Epstein
past people study
People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners. Mario Teguh
past world excuse
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is. Mario Puzo
past america democracy
The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy. Noam Chomsky
past thinking special
I don't want any special powers. I'm powerless. I wouldn't want to see into the future, I wouldn't want to know what anyone was thinking, ever! And I don't want to relive my past. Nikki Reed
past men forgiving
I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion. Nicole Williams
past blonde roles
A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles. Nicky Whelan
past looks film
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. Nick Park
past brain survival
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us. Nick Nolte
past very-good i-can
I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. Nick Hornby
past very-good i-can
I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand. Nick Hornby
past men space
A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. Matt Gonzalez
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. Myles Munroe
past self-improvement your-future
You are not free until your past has no effect on your future Myles Munroe
past uncertain uncertain-future
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. Mohsin Hamid