Quotes about past
past opportunity thinking
I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed. Michael Chang
past psychics understanding
There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life. Michelle Williams
past law civilization
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF"-then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory. Michio Kaku
past ice play
When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.
past would-be machines
What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.
past people rupture
When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future. Michel Martelly
past thinking people
My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.
past thinking way
When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended. Michel Houellebecq
past years mtv
I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem. Martha Plimpton
past long political
It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
past clothes long
Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together. Martha Stewart
past people world
Ask people who are close to the natural world: farmers, people who work the land or in some way use the land for their livelihoods. They will tell you what they are seeing isn't so good. They will tell you the changes they have seen in the past twenty years are remarkable in one way or another and unlike anything they had seen before that. Mark Ruffalo
past thinking people
I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use. Marge Piercy
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 men chance
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance. Henry Ford
past government democracy
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government. Manmohan Singh
past hands people
The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together. Malcolm X
past men white
In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.
past lynching years
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.
past impact negative
Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one. John C. Maxwell
past past-generations generations
We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.
past vision church
When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.
past talking learning-something-new
When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go. Jack Welch
past full-potential human-potential
Your past is not your potential. Harvey Mackay
past sculpture accepting
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor. Louise Bourgeois
past blood clouds
How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood. Louise Erdrich
past today live-for-today
Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules. Louise Hay
past suffering grievance
We are the ones who suffer when we hold on to past grievances.
past steps looks
It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past. George B. McClellan
past
I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time. George Balanchine