Quotes about past
past fugitive remains
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. Marcel Proust
past giving effort
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.
past self different
When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.
past essence smell
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.
past matter coaches
When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just the past history of the previous coaches that had been there. LaVell Edwards
past know-yourself
You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself. Laurie Simmons
past thinking ideas
I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative power of the word actual - an actual what? An actual retouched photo, an actual collaged photo?
past way ifs
The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it. Laura Miller
past haunting determined
The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.
past years roots
I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years. Laura Marling
past knowing foundation
The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been. Laura Lippman
past dividing
There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what? Laini Taylor
past mystery future-and-present
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. Lisa Unger
past weakness links
We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness. Lisa Kleypas
past knights purpose
He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she might have had about him, exposing his mysterious past for the ugly horror that it was. His purpose had been to drive her away. But instead she felt closer to him, as if the truth had bonded them in a new intimacy.
past wife mind
A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting-- no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife." -Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent
past tasks sin
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals John Vanbrugh
past
The past has to inform the present John Turturro
past years personality
I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but a few years ago I realized that I was so causative over how the interview went that I was no longer concerned over the effects of the interview. John Travolta
past men thinking
I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.
past pigs critics
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart. John Updike
past shining darkness
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
past islands sea
Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination. John Stuart Mill
past new-life hope-for-the-future
The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future, John Sentamu
past journey yesterday
The God content of the past no longer sustains the contemporary spirit. We sense that our only hope is to journey past those definitions of a God who is external, supernatural, and invasive, which previously defined our belief. We must discover whether or not the death of the God we worshiped yesterday is the same thing as the death of God. John Shelby Spong
past way lasts
Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.
past years research
I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research. John Ratzenberger
past principles action
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. James Hutton
past rabbits surprise
The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed James Howe
past men two
I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder. James Joyce
past mindfulness plunge
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
past long castles
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
past flow eternal
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.