Quotes about past
past thinking years
[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends. Mark Zuckerberg
past player skills
You have a white guy as an announcer and sportscaster. Me, I'm black. I do it and I've already done some stuff in the past. We're more expressive than the white guys. You look at the skill players. We're the ones that get into the end zone. We get in the end zone more than they do. Terrell Owens
past america months
I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America. Ted Cruz
past voters election
Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future. Theodore White
past atheism world
All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. Theodore Dreiser
past betrayed doe
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. Theodor Adorno
past expression torment
The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.
past kitsch helping
Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.
past catastrophe ifs
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
past obscure certain
The past is certain, the future obscure. Thales
past iran hiding-something
I know there is a lot of concern about plans that Iran might have to develop nuclear weapons which arises from positions that Iran took in the past when in fact it did not disclose things to the IAEA. And therefore the conclusion that the reason that they are refusing to do it is because they are hiding something - I can understand that. Thabo Mbeki
past thinking wish
You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘If only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it. Terry Pratchett
past turns wells
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.
past reality silence
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. Margaret Sanger
past surrender never-surrender
The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders. Margaret Mitchell
past opportunity equality
Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life. Margaret Mead
past people support
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
past dust voice
Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore. Margaret Fuller
past phones people
If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am. Kimi Raikkonen
past offering paper
When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress. Michael Faraday
past men agendas
In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men. Melinda Gates
past election break
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny. Michelle Bachelet
past stills
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled. Michael Ondaatje
past phones people
Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank. Neal Stephenson
past events murder
One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future. Neal Shusterman
past ideas creating
The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.' Neale Donald Walsch
past people political
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. Milan Kundera
past night people
Osho had been speaking to a small group of people every night at his house for the past few months. Milarepa
past people want
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
past thinking different
You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.
past looks different
Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.
past smell house
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo. Mickey Spillane
past fire break
The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks. Margaret Weis