Quotes about past
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. Oliver Stone
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 people behavior
Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again. Merrill Markoe
past life-is never-change
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless. Merle Shain
past age temples
There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now. Merle Haggard
past pitfalls process
I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls. Meles Zenawi
past musical nostalgia
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace. Mel Torme
past imagination taste
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. Mason Cooley
past body flesh
The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.
past doe depends
The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.
past betray
The present necessarily betrays the past.
past wind tripping
To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.
past issues people
The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.
past may way
Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.
past waiting always-waiting
The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.
past avant-garde stranded
The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
past ironic narrative
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
past advice ignorant
The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.
past cradle bigs
The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big. Mary Antin
past
It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.
past sun offers
In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer. Martin Van Creveld
past america age
Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent. Martin Yan
past opportunity needs
If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past. Michael Gove
past years numbers
I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.
past thinking talking
One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.