Quotes about past
past journey men
The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-. Emily Dickinson
past may faces
The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.
past lays packages
The past is not a package one can lay away.
past men voice
What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices of inspired prophets. The reason is that all change, in colliding with the inherited institutions of the past, is inevitably hard and laborious; consequently it only takes place in response to the demands of necessity. For change to be brought about it is not enough that it should be seen as desirable; it must be the product of changes within the whole network of diverse casual relationships which then determine the situation of man. Emile Durkheim
past sight would-be
You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that. Holly Black
past different constructs
It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
past long psychology
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. Hermann Ebbinghaus
past rivers siddhartha
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future. Hermann Hesse
past perfect meditation
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
past men lizards
Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.
past europe people
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back. Henry Van Dyke
past-future fear-of-the-future future-and-present
Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
past scene form
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
past looks one-tree-hill-love
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.
past wrecks lasts
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
past delight growing
I'm growing old, I delight in the past. Henri Matisse
past digging generations
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
past voice giving
When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives in which we are thrown back and forth between the past and the future. If we could just be, for a few minutes each day, fully where we are, we would indeed discover that we are not alone and that the One who is with us wants only one thing: to give us love Henri Nouwen
past people way
It is freeing to become aware that we do not have to be victims of our past and can learn new ways of responding. Forgiveness is love practiced among people who love poorly. It sets us free without wanting anything in return.
past men air
Nuclear man is the man who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction. He sees that in this nuclear age vast new industrial complexes enable man to produce in one hour that which he labored over for years in the past, but he also realizes that these same industries have disturbed the ecological balance and, through air and noise pollution, have contaminated his own milieu...
past diaries planning
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. Heath Ledger
past years numbers
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges. Hassanal Bolkiah
past long victory
For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past. Hernando Cortes
past feet aging
She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past. Hermione Gingold
past people resilience
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system. Henry Paulson
past men opinion
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions. Heinrich Heine
past alive building
Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing. Hideo Kojima
past littles behinds
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. Hilary Mantel
past wmd mass-destruction
He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. Henry Waxman
past joy trouble
Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past. Henry Ward Beecher
past roots tree
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
past wings development
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.
past age results
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.