Quotes about past
past trying definitions
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively James Schuyler
past design sifting
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design. James Salter
past people sometimes
Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.
past long important
Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future.
past towers looks
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. James Russell Lowell
past safe headstone
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
past mirrors promise
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past...
past thinking historical
The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.
past safe incessant
Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
past soul palaces
My soul is not a palace of the past...
past men forever
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
past smell sound
It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita Laura Esquivel
past men oxygen
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. Laura Hillenbrand
past three done
I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States Kyle MacLachlan
past dancer abby
I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer. Liana Liberato
past find-me refuse
I refuse to let the past find me here. Libba Bray
past two creepy
Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?" "To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!" "You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.
past accepting erase
We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history. Gary Chapman
past score past-failures
Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)
past needs being-human
..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.
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
past two accepted
In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. Jacky Ickx
past live-in-the-present profit
The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.
past gold paint
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. Henry Rollins
past facts events
The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
past long directors
I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.
past thinking important
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.