Quotes about past
past new-life hope-for-the-future
The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future, John Sentamu
past people political
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. Milan Kundera
past night people
Osho had been speaking to a small group of people every night at his house for the past few months. Milarepa
past people want
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
past thinking different
You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.
past looks different
Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.
past smell house
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo. Mickey Spillane
past fire break
The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks. Margaret Weis
past fugitive remains
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. Marcel Proust
past giving effort
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.
past self different
When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.
past essence smell
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.
past lines may
In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past. Jose Ortega y Gasset
pastime
The national pastime is juiced, Jose Canseco
past thinking trying
I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing. Jordyn Wieber
past labyrinth world
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world. Jorge Luis Borges
past polemics precursor
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
past vocabulary facts
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors
past should accomplished
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
past phases faces
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
past people long
I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks. Jonathan Tropper
past government support
no diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad. Kevin Rudd
past data giving
While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future. Kevin Spacey
past acting schedules
I decided to not be so dismissive of my music in favor of my acting. Acting has been such a consistent thing for me; a lot of times in the past, I wouldn't have had the confidence with my music to really make it a part of my schedule. I would easily push it to the side, or I would easily take up time that was needed for it. I'm not that way anymore. Now, I really want to make everything work. I want to continue to do both at the highest level that I can. Keke Palmer
past obstacles excuse
My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse. Kelley Armstrong
past names parent
A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?
past stories time-travel
Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is much more problematic, as countless stories have demonstrated!
pasta underground-music pure
There is nothing I like more than pure underground music Kurt Cobain
past years pits
Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.
past perception cooperation
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past Khaleda Zia
past fifth-amendment three
We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades. Joe Biden
past moments my-future
The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future. Louise Hay
past years yesterday
All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are