Quotes about past
past done mystery
What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery Mike Tyson
past doors want
There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.
past example action
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. Miguel de Cervantes
past history cost
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
past sight discovery
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder, we will forever uncover the secrets of the universe - one by one. Neil deGrasse Tyson
past forever facts
You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.
past origin-of-life events
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.
past thinking self
There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.
past doors break-through
The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today. Neil Gaiman
past voice library
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.
past administration republican
I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations. John O. Brennan
past hands duchess
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious. John Webster
past relief employment
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. John Thorn
past perfect may
There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past. John Robinson
past thinking work-out
I work out. I try to work out every day. That keeps me in the moment, which is great. Keeps my head from thinking about the future and the past too much. I love working out. That really helps me a lot. John Rzeznik
past greatness people
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory John Steinbeck
past people three
You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.
past wrath knows
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
past your-past hardest
The hardest part of living is making peace with your past. Most of all, it’s making peace with yourself. Sherrilyn Kenyon
past yesterday use
To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.
past scar souvenirs
Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.
past months twenties
Know what? (Wulf) If halflings live past twenty-seven. But then anything is possible. I say in a few months we should pop us some Orville Redenbacher’s, then sit back and enjoy the show. (Spawn)
pasta going-out hanging-out
With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini! Terence Stamp
past rivers alcohol
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. Nick Flynn
past reality infidelity
When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on. Nora Ephron
past pretending
Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it. Nora Roberts
past lust gone
...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.
past joy sorrow
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. Nikolai Gogol
past looks astonishment
I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. Nikos Kazantzakis
past goal effort
Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. Nikola Tesla
past men law
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
past rainy-day rushing
So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past. Nicole Krauss
past player years
In the past two or three years, the number of clubs has doubled ... we've got close to 8 000 players, about 60 to 80 clubs. It's not restricted to the metros any more, it's gone rural. Nasser Hussain