Quotes about past
past men black
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men. James A. Baldwin
past cracks use
To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
past other-worlds civilization
The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday. Jacques Yves Cousteau
past years safety
It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins. Jackie Stewart
past challenges mind
For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
past tears care
Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters. Jackie Kennedy
past important today
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. Christopher Lasch
past looks prison-life
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
past years yesterday
But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not perhaps — quite certainly: it will come. Christopher Isherwood
past
The past is just something that's over.
past important hope-for-the-future
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now. George Harrison
past car skins
If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.
past trying might
The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.
past wings mad
They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.
past echoes poetic
The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes. Gaston Bachelard
past reverie
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
past soul doe
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
past authentic-self
Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past Gary Zukav
past years done
I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had. Gary Burton
past other-cultures trying
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. Gary Becker
past giving growth
F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open. Gary Busey
past men soul
The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell. Fulton J. Sheen
past biodiversity
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future. Frans Lanting
past your-future boundless
If your past is limited, your future is boundless. Franklin Pierce
past adults youth
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present. Franz Grillparzer
past dust rights
We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all. Jeanette Winterson
past long needs
She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you’d done in a past life you didn’t need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn’t be ready to do now.
past broken secret
Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?
past forget easy
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
past fiction would-be
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
past narrative way
Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.
past journey stories
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.
past self differences
Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference.