Quotes about past
past men remembrance
As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius. Otto Weininger
past links changing-your-life
You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty. Oswald Spengler
past trying tasks
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. Otto von Bismarck
past judging may
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde
past dying gone
I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself. Kami Garcia
past japan disaster
Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past. Junichiro Koizumi
past color weather
Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them. Junichiro Tanizaki
past goal
The past isn't going to get you to your goal. Junior Seau
past thinking people
I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about Jung Chang
past men examination
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
past race views
The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future. Julian Huxley
past harder ifs
If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future. Julian Fellowes
past names organization
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American. Judy Holliday
past media years
For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation. Judy Woodruff
past my-past my-future
I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to. Joyce Meyer
past technology years
A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble Paul Krugman
past years useless
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
past may looks
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. Paul Dickson
past artist remember
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist. Patrick Swayze
past india littles
When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw India's past as part of an antiquity rendered irrelevant by modernity, which with its science, nation states, free enterprises, and consumer societies was supposed to have solved all problems. Pankaj Mishra
past judgement should
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements. Paracelsus
past men self
Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind. Paramahansa Yogananda
past flames trials
Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.
past worry secret
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. . . Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.
past remembrance doe
Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past. Ovid
past knows
To build up a future, you have to know the past. Otto Frank
past mirrors fey
Ancient mirror Macick mirror Shades of gray Hidden Forbidden Within, away Part the mist Macick kissed Call the fey Reveal the past The spell is cast I save the day! P. C. Cast
past years parent
What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.
past real-talk done
We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.
past ideas imagination
If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas. Paul McCartney
past periods feels
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
past ipods superhero
Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more. Patton Oswalt
past historian knows
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. Peter Greenaway