Quotes about past
past wrecks lasts
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
past delight growing
I'm growing old, I delight in the past. Henri Matisse
past digging generations
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
past voice giving
When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives in which we are thrown back and forth between the past and the future. If we could just be, for a few minutes each day, fully where we are, we would indeed discover that we are not alone and that the One who is with us wants only one thing: to give us love Henri Nouwen
past people way
It is freeing to become aware that we do not have to be victims of our past and can learn new ways of responding. Forgiveness is love practiced among people who love poorly. It sets us free without wanting anything in return.
past men air
Nuclear man is the man who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction. He sees that in this nuclear age vast new industrial complexes enable man to produce in one hour that which he labored over for years in the past, but he also realizes that these same industries have disturbed the ecological balance and, through air and noise pollution, have contaminated his own milieu...
past diaries planning
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. Heath Ledger
past years numbers
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges. Hassanal Bolkiah
past long victory
For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past. Hernando Cortes
past feet aging
She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past. Hermione Gingold
past people resilience
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system. Henry Paulson
past men opinion
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions. Heinrich Heine
past alive building
Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing. Hideo Kojima
past littles behinds
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. Hilary Mantel
past wmd mass-destruction
He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. Henry Waxman
past joy trouble
Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past. Henry Ward Beecher
past roots tree
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
past wings development
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.
past age results
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
past soul infinite
There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.
past men roots
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
past strange familiar
We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar. Henry James
past poet exception
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. Helen Vendler
past digging imagine
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. Heinrich Schliemann
past trying genocide
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. Helen Dunmore
past recognise happenings
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
past ifs
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
past time-flies done
Time flies, and what is past is done.
past media soul
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
past longing something-new
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
past history destroyed
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
past world daring
The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.
past shining mind
At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.