Quotes about past
past may heroic
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned. Ellen Goodman
past discovery years
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being. Ellen Glasgow
past men hard
What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.
past law may
But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
past events theory
Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined. Ellen G. White
past action customers
New Customers come from the action of past customers Eric Ries
past simple growth
Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.
past ideas iron
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE! Erasmus Darwin
past years games
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game. Eric Alterman
past college years
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast -- give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.
past important who-we-are
Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are. Emily Giffin
past dwelling wonder
Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.
past men ironic
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die. Emily Dickinson
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-.
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 pluralism-is islam
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. Karen Armstrong
past should circumstances
We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.
past missing murmuring
Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past. Joyce Meyer
past important our-past
It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.
past people quality
It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.
past order office
Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future. Katharine Whitehorn
past reality talking
Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strangers from our past kaleidoscope through us according to some pattern that is both illogical and has its own strange melting truth, and then wake up and have a Pop-Tart?" Why are we talking about fantasy and reality like they're opposed? Karen Russell
past want superficial
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe. Judith Wright
past men joy
The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time. Joseph Conrad
past impossible states
It's impossible to recreate music from the past. Music always states the truth. Kaskade
past animal feels
A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely. Leona Lewis
past people mind
I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible.
past somewhere-else cities
Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else. Leonard Cohen
past instant dies
Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant. Lauren Bacall
past looks realizing
You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.
past legends
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.