Quotes about past
past comforting needed
Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it. Giovanni Boccaccio
past compassion suffering
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
past years careers
I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful Giovanni Ribisi
past years trade
I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything. Gil Gerard
past dwelling perspective
The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other ... Harriet Martineau
past strange sometimes
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes! Harriet Beecher Stowe
past two soul
The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.
past reality today
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
past thinking facts
I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'. Harper Lee
past love-is thinking
I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future. Gregory David Roberts
past years discovery
During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together. Ian Stewart
past thinking government
I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too? Ian Somerhalder
past careers ladders
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that. Iain Duncan Smith
past people come-up
I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in. Hugh Bonneville
past tough-times challenges
If you are having a tough time today, push past those boundaries, because by challenging your fears today will become the strength you feel tomorrow... DO WHAT YOU FEAR, DON'T FEAR WHAT YOU DO. Hrithik Roshan
past views history
George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people. Howard Zinn
past compassion supposing-that
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
past terms
I don't think they're necessarily better than some past administrations in terms of the spin. What they have done which distinguishes them ... is how close-mouthed they are.
past lakes law
To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas. Horace Mann
past
If he'd have got to 3 and 4, he'd have been fine, ... But you had to get past 1 and 2. Jerry Glanville
past seen throw time
I couldn't throw anything past him. It was the first time I'd seen him hit, and he was impressive. It was a show.
past i-can
I can't. You can't rewrite the past. Jay Asher
past unanswered-questions world
If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last? Garth Brooks
past men midnight
The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded. Frederick Forsyth
past america literature
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Frederick Douglass
past views way
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around. Frederick Buechner
past grace today
To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
past thinking maturity
My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past. Frank Thomas
past would-be daylight
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been. George Eliot
past years desire
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.
past prison embrace
When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past, Fernando Flores
past live-in-the-present i-can
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have. Fernando Pessoa
past reality possibility
I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.