Quotes about past
past trying fiction
The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now. William Gibson
past men color
I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality. Will Durant
past rely-upon police
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
past found flourishing
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
past
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
past thinking hype
I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. Sarah Palin
past remember remembering-the-past
He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.
past answers today
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live. Sarah Brightman
past up-to-you different
the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen. Sara Zarr
past enough hard
Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's. Sarah Addison Allen
past fallen
She'd fallen into the best part of her past.
past yesterday-and-today matter
Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Sarah Ban Breathnach
past world
Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
past simple comfort
Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to.
past simple men
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast. William Faulkner
past over-it
The past isn't over. It isn't even past.
past substitutes something-better
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
past history doe
The past does not influence me; I influence it. Willem de Kooning
past way want
I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future. Ronald Reagan
past government america
[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values but neither must it seek, as it did in the recent past, to suppress or replace them. That only robbed us of our tiller and set us adrift. Helping to restore these values will bring new strength, direction and dignity to our lives and to the life of our nation. It's on these values that we'll best build our future.
past equality saint
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. Saint Augustine
past medicine suffering
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.
past saint
Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God. Saint Francis de Sales
past three variation
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
past moved-on eternity
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
past ebb-and-flow forever
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.
past artist giving
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. Vera Wang
past trying updates
I try to update as much as possible. You don't want to be in the past. Venus Williams
past marketing unveiling
In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard. Vance Packard
past inspired lift-me-up
Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now. Valerie June
past painful painful-past
We all have our painful pasts we have to get through. Valerie Bertinelli
past knowing superstitions
One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished. I have frequently started to go places where I had never been and to which I did not know the way, depending upon making inquiries on the road, and if I got past the place without knowing it, instead of turning back, I would go until a road was found turning in the right direction, take that, and come in by the other side. Ulysses S. Grant
past car way
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way. Robin Wright