Quotes about past
past roots people
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? Robert Dale Owen
past men genius
Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past. Robert D. Kaplan
past looks way
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be. Robert Carlyle
past bombs down-and
I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help. Roald Dahl
past trying architecture
Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future. Richard Rogers
past black want
It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited. Tupac Shakur
past might states
T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past. Michel de Montaigne
past age saws
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
past calling eloquence
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
past media organization
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations. Frank Church
past times-past fascinated
I am fascinated with times past. Frank Darabont
past historical musical
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
past night paris
I have a picture of a rainy Paris street scene which I bought when I was 33 and on my first trip to Paris. I go past it when I go upstairs every night and it reminds me of that trip and makes me happy George Clooney
past
It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. Paulo Coelho
past speech tongue
O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue. Moses
past men thinking
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself. Philip Sidney
past stronger phrases
'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become. Philip Roth
past artist boredom
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to. Philip Guston
past cezanne losing
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work to such an extent that the work itself... felt as if a living organism was posited there on the canvas, on this surface... That's truly... the act of creation.
past years careers
When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised. Peyton Manning
past nostalgia used
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Peter De Vries
past entrepreneur shifting
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past. Peter Drucker
past mystery future-and-present
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. Lisa Unger
past weakness links
We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness. Lisa Kleypas
past knights purpose
He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she might have had about him, exposing his mysterious past for the ugly horror that it was. His purpose had been to drive her away. But instead she felt closer to him, as if the truth had bonded them in a new intimacy.
past wife mind
A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting-- no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife." -Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent
past tasks sin
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals John Vanbrugh
past
The past has to inform the present John Turturro
past years personality
I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but a few years ago I realized that I was so causative over how the interview went that I was no longer concerned over the effects of the interview. John Travolta
past men thinking
I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.
past pigs critics
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart. John Updike
past shining darkness
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
past islands sea
Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination. John Stuart Mill