Quotes about past
past safe headstone
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. James Russell Lowell
past mirrors promise
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past...
past thinking historical
The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.
past safe incessant
Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
past soul palaces
My soul is not a palace of the past...
past men forever
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
past smell sound
It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita Laura Esquivel
past men oxygen
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. Laura Hillenbrand
past three done
I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States Kyle MacLachlan
past dancer abby
I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer. Liana Liberato
past find-me refuse
I refuse to let the past find me here. Libba Bray
past two creepy
Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?" "To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!" "You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.
past accepting erase
We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history. Gary Chapman
past score past-failures
Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)
past needs being-human
..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.
past space history
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity. Friedrich Schiller
past arrows forever
Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.
past forever stills
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
past long long-time
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. Franklin D. Roosevelt
past thinking civilization
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce
past constitution-of-the-united-states week
I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.
past looks should
One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present. George Fernandes
past greatness history
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. Jon Meacham
past glasses half
We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. Jon Bon Jovi
past men scary
This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary. Johnny Christ
past charity today
You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity. James Cook
past
We can never right the wrongs of the past.
past roaming pages
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read. James Altucher
past today tomorrow
Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.
past rivers rocks
If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.
past years brokeback-mountain
One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement. Jake Gyllenhaal
past perfect becoming
I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming. Jacques Lacan
past two accepted
In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. Jacky Ickx