Quotes about past
past together-again understood
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. Willa Cather
past men records
Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat. Walter Lippmann
past opinion life-is
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
past mind suffering
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. William Styron
past waiting tea
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. Wilkie Collins
past men law
No man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be empowered to claim that it is greater than the Natural Law from which it stems and to which it must inevitably return in the eternal rhythm of creation and decline of all things natural. Wilhelm Reich
past people together
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened. Walter Ulbricht
past years impossible
A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine, Walter Wriston
past notes music-is
The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come. Walter Savage Landor
past needs helping
Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find? Walter Dean Myers
past supposing-that giving
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience. William Kingdon Clifford
past today voltage
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. Yevgeny Zamyatin
past errors risk
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
past environmental generations
We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present. Winona LaDuke
past flames sea
In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea. Winston Churchill
past political trying
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.
past historical littles
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
past destiny preparation
I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.
past judgment lost
If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.
past forgotten nations
A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.
past forget forget-it
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
past asking ifs
It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go. William Rotsler
past half symbiosis
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute. William S. Burroughs
past spain bounds
Like Spain, I am bound to the past.
past views curiosity
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters William Maxwell
past sustenance
There's no sustenance in the past. Violette Leduc
past years wish
When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time. Vinny Testaverde
past organization broken
We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past. Woodrow Wilson
past college men
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
past ifs
If the future and the past really exist, where are they? Saint Augustine
past careers weight
I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer. Yannick Noah
past silence firsts
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. Wislawa Szymborska
past world habit
We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.