Quotes about past
past men house
It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty. F. Scott Fitzgerald
past america people
I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship. George W. Bush
past years rising
We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.
past other-cultures mirrors
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past. George Steiner
past animal history
England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same. George Orwell
past agreement evil
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
past nineteen 1984-important
He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
past sea world
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable
past achievement fundamentals
In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.
past years race
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
past mind world
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
past men teeth
His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth. George R. R. Martin
past dust done
Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..
past-present-future earth moments
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. Jean Cocteau
past left recent-past
When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left? George Carlin
past years people
You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people... I do... I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don't like people for extended periods of time. I'm all right with them for a little while, but once you get past around a minute, minute-and-a-half, I gotta get the f*** outta there.
past journey space
Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are. Gene Roddenberry
past able rediscovery
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past. Gene Tierney
past advice wish
More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once. Garth Nix
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.
past spirit forget
Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget. Felicia Hemans
past years long
A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all. Feist
past years two
I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.