Quotes about past
past men thinking
I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless.... M. F. K. Fisher
past care oppression
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past. Malachy McCourt
past player games
There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players. Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn. Magnus Carlsen
past government lessons
The American government must finally learn lessons from the past. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
past learn-from-the-past
Everyone must learn from the past.
past men life-is
All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
past simple men
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all. Mahatma Gandhi
past men faults
There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.
past redemption sin
I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.
past looks feels
The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.
past roots honor
If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
past journey history
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them. Freya Stark
past people use
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.
past discovery years
New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate. Fred Upton
past ifs knows
You cannot survive if you do not know the past. Oriana Fallaci
past years errors
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. Orhan Pamuk
past land
The past is always an invented land.
past years office
I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate. Olympia Snowe
past feelings style
I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone
past moments tyranny
I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.
past thinking experience
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
past people identity
The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.. Oliver Sacks
past race hands
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
past cities berlin
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. Olafur Eliasson
past men gloves
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves. O. Henry
past thinking people
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. Octavia Butler
past thinking our-society
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind. Octavio Paz
past fiction-novels space
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism. Nursultan Nazarbayev
past betray
All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me. Novala Takemoto
past way succeed
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had. Novak Djokovic
past world path
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found. Novalis
past toes illusion
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. Emile Zola
past holocaust impossible
I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future. Ellen Goodman