Quotes about past
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. Prince Charles
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. Nathaniel Hawthorne
past architecture should
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. Moshe Safdie
past discovery years
One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions. Jim Palmer
past yesterday giving
There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance. Jim Rohn
past mind substance
Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present. Jim Rohn
past burden
Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden. Jim Rohn
past mentor use
Use your past as one of your mentors. Jim Rohn
past choices today
You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past Jim Rohn
past thinking decision
If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process. Jim Rohn
past soul attention
Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself. George Lucas
past tears
Past tears are present strength. George MacDonald
past land names
People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property. Emily Post
past administration middle-east
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. Elliott Abrams
past shapes way
Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out. Ellen Hopkins
past doors rooms
Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again. Ellen Hopkins
past promise cant-change
I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better. Ellen Hopkins
past our-world notion
The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world. Elizabeth Hand
past want moments
Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . . Elizabeth George
past changed forgiven
The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven. Elizabeth George
past giving shadow
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past! Elizabeth Gaskell
past thinking fire
I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was a deliberately set fire, and then a whole chain of information became malevolent.Criminal past - that worked all in their favor to create this "monster" - and they even used the word "monster." It's like, let's ensure that the public thinks he's an evil individual. Elizabeth Gilbert
past light done
I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. John Burns
past return may
One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth. John Burroughs
past trying matter
I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past. Joel Osteen