Quotes about past
past thinking self
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating. P. Chidambaram
past discipline dying
History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. P. D. James
past choices republican
We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it... P. J. O'Rourke
past thinking fishing
Do one thing every day that scares you...Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own...Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. Mary Schmich
past motive prove
Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
past quiet moments
Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
past facts forgotten
There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.
past destiny men
I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years Martin Heidegger
past being-positive
I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive. Mark McGwire
past talking people
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. Mark Epstein
past people study
People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners. Mario Teguh
past world excuse
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is. Mario Puzo
past america democracy
The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy. Noam Chomsky
past thinking special
I don't want any special powers. I'm powerless. I wouldn't want to see into the future, I wouldn't want to know what anyone was thinking, ever! And I don't want to relive my past. Nikki Reed
past men forgiving
I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion. Nicole Williams
past blonde roles
A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles. Nicky Whelan
past looks film
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. Nick Park
past brain survival
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us. Nick Nolte
past very-good i-can
I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. Nick Hornby
past very-good i-can
I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.
past men space
A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. Matt Gonzalez
past years numbers
You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts. Mark Twain
past ifs happens
What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you. Nicholas Sparks
past world growing
because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.
past circles becoming
Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.
past cant-change i-can
I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.
past something-better
The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.
past littles life-is
The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.
past thinking people
People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.
past safe-haven cant-change
Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
past rest-of-your-life screw-ups
If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.
past sea balls
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea. Navjot Singh Sidhu
past goal hostage
Do not let the future be held hostage by the past Neal A. Maxwell