Quotes about past
past fiction anthropology
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. Joan D. Vinge
past genealogy seeds
The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. Joan Didion
past land somewhere-else
The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.
past reality giving
I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation. Joan Jett
past cheerful language
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. Jimmy Breslin
past wind names
Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last. Jimi Hendrix
past rest-of-your-life forget
FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE! Eric Thomas
past men years
The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne and His train still fills the temple. He still walks on the wings of the wind, He still rides on the backs of the mighty cherubim, and He still is the Triumphant Champion from Calvary. All hell still bends to His will, and sin and death have lost their hold on all who rest in the shadow of His presence. And the God who calmed storms, raised up dead men to life, and multiplied fishes and loaves to feed thousands is the same God we have today. Eric Ludy
past government understanding
Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low. Eric Liu
past way eyeliner
I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way. Emma Stone
past average law
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law. Emma Goldman
past swings balance
I know there's a balance/I see it when I swing past. John Mellencamp
past president libertarian
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian. John McCain
past men thinking
My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves! John Barth
past play important
As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future. John Barrowman
past thinking live-in-the-present
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past. John Banville
past discovery years
One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions. Jim Palmer
past yesterday giving
There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance. Jim Rohn
past mind substance
Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.
past burden
Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden.
past mentor use
Use your past as one of your mentors.
past choices today
You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past
past thinking decision
If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.
past soul attention
Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself. George Lucas
past tears
Past tears are present strength. George MacDonald
past land names
People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property. Emily Post
past administration middle-east
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. Elliott Abrams
past shapes way
Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out. Ellen Hopkins
past doors rooms
Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.
past promise cant-change
I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.
past our-world notion
The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world. Elizabeth Hand
past want moments
Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . . Elizabeth George
past changed forgiven
The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.