Quotes about past
past artist add
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. Paul Cezanne
past interesting doubt
I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life. Patricia Velasquez
past curtains charm
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. Oscar Wilde
past three watching
For the past three weeks, this is better than watching TV.
past support leader
I wish I could say I didn't owe anything to anyone. But the truth is, I wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for the courage and support of each and every one of you. I hope I can be as good a leader as we've had in the past and as good as you deserve. Jack O'Neill
past childhood personality
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities. Ivan Turgenev
past guarantees-that childhood
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. Isaiah Berlin
past imagination remember
We invent the past and remember the future. Isak Dinesen
past worry ruins
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. Isak Dinesen
past europe america
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America. Ishmael Reed
past hegel truth-is
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word. Iris Murdoch
pasta tools makers
The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work! Ina Garten
past careers accomplishment
I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto. Ichiro Suzuki
past men consistency
To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools. Hyman Rickover
past actors fool
In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second. Gloria Swanson
past imagination mourning
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on. Gloria Steinem
past equal
Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history. Gloria Steinem
past laughing people
There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset. Gloria Steinem
past answers problem
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer. Gloria Steinem
past remembrance becoming
Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again. Giorgio Agamben
past thinking insecurity
When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I never see a smile. I think it came out of my insecurity. I had a lot of complexes. Giorgio Armani
past mind experience
The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.
past president done
The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now. Harry Reid
past grandchildren years
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted. Harry S Truman
past names differences
Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes. Harry S Truman
past roots president
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. Harry S Truman
past lasts moments
The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment. J. Michael Straczynski
past giving locks
What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story. J. M. Coetzee
past funny-harry-potter mouths
Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way. J. K. Rowling
past feet sound
May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground… Nate Ruess
past made ends
The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future. Natalie Clifford Barney
past parasites
That parasite: the past. Natalie Clifford Barney
past office people
A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue. Muhammadu Buhari