Quotes about past
past one-day needs
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Maya Angelou
past doe
The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does
past next moments
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
past carriages maxims
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. Maxim Gorky
past remembrance energy
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
past curiosity carriages
In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.
past enemy our-past
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
past beliefs-and-values our-future
History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past. Max de Pree
past order horizon
My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
past darkness comedian
To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps. Matthew Perry
past order iowa
In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money. Mark Shields
past community reason
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed. Marina Abramovic
past littles projects
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
past artist names
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments. Marilyn vos Savant
past giving people
The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one. Marilynne Robinson
past profound appreciate
The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in itself. Poetry, at least traditionally, has been an educing of the beauty of language, the beauty of experience, the beauty of the working of the mind, and so on. The pastor does, indeed, appreciate it.
past
I'm not going to keep boxing. It's part of my past and now I want to live my life. Mike Tyson
pasta sides moments
My favourite food at the moment is Pasta, “with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I meanwhen you get the thin slices. Kirsten Dunst
past done different
I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before. Kimberly Elise
past pace caught
There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future. Kim Stanley Robinson
past thinking thanks
I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year. Kevin Drum
past cities immediacy
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. Kenneth Tynan
past issues safety
Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something. Kathleen Hanna
past men phases
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases? Karl Pearson
past reality cells
And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing. Karl Ove Knausgard
past history brain
The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. Karl Marx
past superstitions revolution
The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.
past government historical
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
past men brain
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
past longing
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. Judi Dench
past vision firsts
To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past. Josh Bernstein
past recessions room
They've got more room to move, and they will move. That's what they've always done in past recessions and what they'll do again.
past conflict mature
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free. Jim DeMint