Quotes about past
past pushing-forward reaching
Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can. Steve Earle
past ideas nomad
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. Stephen Gardiner
past afternoon
The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past. Stephen Fry
past doors names
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Paulo Coelho
past people marketing
In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing. Peter Sotos
past reality practice
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now. Peter Matthiessen
past predicting
Charts are great for predicting the past. Peter Lynch
past peaceful ira
What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic. Peter Hain
past earth environment
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. Rachel Carson
past healthy want
I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70. Questlove
past people long
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? R. A. Salvatore
past america historical
I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre. Quentin Tarantino
past years people
What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalities that are not being accounted for. Prince Charles
past impact long
We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
past wind two
Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin. Pocahontas
past viewpoints form
The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present. Terry Eagleton
past vienna peculiar
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.
past doe truth-is
The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
past philosopher curious
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
past used
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
past wizards life-is
Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past. Terry Goodkind
past giving interesting
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. Terri Windling
past age happenings
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all. Terence McKenna
past thinking years
I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.
past hands flavor
My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader. Teju Cole
past australia people
The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that. Ted Koppel
past depth nightfall
Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast. Ted Hughes
past repentance-and-forgiveness atonement
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. Ted Chiang
past want keep-going
I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward. Ted Danson
past wish transition
Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ? Randall Jarrell
past phones people
Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank. Neal Stephenson
past events murder
One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future. Neal Shusterman
past ideas creating
The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.' Neale Donald Walsch