Quotes about past
past thinking tomorrow
Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store? Thomas Hardy
past men views
No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. Thomas B. Macaulay
past men views
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
past lust mind
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes
past men
Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.
past times-past prudence
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
past government democracy
It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy. Tim Ryan
past world impossible
I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then. Thomas Love Peacock
past night air
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
past love-is light
We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being. Thomas Keating
past fool ownership
Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
past thinking finding-yourself
When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I dont know what to say, really. Vince Clarke
past men law
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life. Vilfredo Pareto
past house transformation
The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean. Vince Cable
past realizing
We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize. Viggo Mortensen
past trying kind
I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present. Victoria Azarenka
past years political
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus. Victor Davis Hanson
past boundaries fulfilling
For the past fourteen years, it's been my job to push past my boundaries and do things I never thought I could do, which is why it's been such a fulfilling career. Gretchen Bleiler
past government return
Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past. Gordon Brown
past night one-night
I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred. Gordon B. Hinckley
past wonderful our-future
Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future.
past men needs
I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present. Glen Cook
past yesterday octopus
the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. Gladys Taber
past years exclusion
Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years. Gerry Adams
past hope-for-the-future
We hope for the future, then we reach for the past. Geri Halliwell
past leader development
In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. Herbie Hancock
past facts majority
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. Herbert Spencer
past scar scorching
I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar. Herman Melville
past tyrants textbooks
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
past victory may
To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.
past tyrants wife
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
past experience moments
The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present. Henry David Thoreau
past anticipation remember
I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.