Quotes about past
past people growth
We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed. Park Geun-hye
past years two
As IT enters the mobile-cloud era, IT providers need to be more innovative about addressing customers' fast changing needs. Over the past two years, Cisco and Citrix have collaborated to deliver significant innovation into the market. Now we are excited to accelerate our partnership into cloud, networking and mobility. Padmasree Warrior
past affinity
I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past. Paloma Faith
past long great-day
We have lived too long. The great days are past. Lev Grossman
past play way
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
past repentance janus
Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
past yield history
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. Leopold Von Ranke
past judging office
To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).
past interest
The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. Leon Redbone
past looks century
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? Leon Kass
past iran organization
Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us. Leon Panetta
past two people
Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two. Lauren Oliver
past wind broken
I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.
past layers dirt
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
past self killers
We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.
past careful ifs
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
past people waiting
For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future - I can't wait to see who you'll be. And in both cases: Thank you.
past hands trying
In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull. Alex, come back. There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.
past weight stones
The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
past simple
The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now. Larry Poons
past stories moments
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives. Larry Wall
past worrying-too-much important
Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
past profit exile
In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future. Lajos Kossuth
past thinking history
In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry. P. J. O'Rourke
past quality painter
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. Pablo Picasso
past discovery giving
You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.
past texture ambience
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present. Paul Scott
past barbers ifs
If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut. Paul Merson
past reality deals
You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future. Paul Mooney
past anything-can-happen cant-change
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
past perfection tears
Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past. Paul Hindemith
past president aftermath
In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence. Paul Johnson
past forget repeats
He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it. Paul Christopher