Quotes about past
past live-in-the-present profit
The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.
past gold paint
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. Henry Rollins
past facts events
The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
past long directors
I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.
past thinking important
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
past sin remission
It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past. Henry B. Eyring
past giving long
The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.
past conclusion draws
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. Henry A. Kissinger
past historical experience
It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
past
The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past. Henry Giroux
past errors ideas
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. Henry Hazlitt
past swings mexico
New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state. Heather Wilson
past long tailors
Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it. Hector Hugh Munro
past order may
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. Henry David Thoreau
past two live-in-the-moment
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
past today chaos
..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos. Henry Ford
past misunderstood library
Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.
past men chance
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
past government democracy
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government. Manmohan Singh
past hands people
The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together. Malcolm X
past men white
In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.
past lynching years
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.
past impact negative
Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one. John C. Maxwell
past past-generations generations
We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.
past vision church
When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.
past rent
And of course, I'm getting upset, because it's way past due. Rent should have been paid. Jerry Collins
past forgiving looks
But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back. Elizabeth Smart
past people contradiction
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. Eric Hobsbawm
past men giving
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past. Eric Hoffer
past awareness here-and-now
Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future. Eric Berne
past men political
Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists. Enoch Powell
past work-out want
If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass. Lu Xun
past mind favors
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared. Louis Pasteur