Quotes about past
past choices done
I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment. Minnie Driver
past broken able
The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it. Minka Kelly
past men history
The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past. Pearl S. Buck
past inner-peace important
There was a time - when I attained inner peace - when I died, utterly died to myself. I have since renounced my previous identity. I can see not reason to dwell upon my past, it is dead and should not be resurrected. Don't inquire of me - ask me about my message. It is not important to remember the messenger, just remember the message. Peace Pilgrim
past long-ago should-have
How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.
past together tradition
To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. Paula McLain
past scholar great-future
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past. Peter Thiel
past history recollection
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. Peter L. Berger
past men race
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history. Peter Kropotkin
past college men
The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable of manufacturing and deploying chemical, radiological, and biological weapons. Al Qaeda attracts the kind of highly educated men who one day might be able to pull off such an attack. Peter Bergen
past light giving
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare. Peter Brook
past player thinking
Ronaldo has come through for the past two or three years and is the best in Europe. I think at the moment no doubt Ronaldo is the best player. Pele
past healthy type
I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right. Phil Anselmo
past looks situation
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it. Peter Schoomaker
past years effort
When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important. Peter Senge
past greatness our-future
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness. Pierre Trudeau
past statistics structure
The past has revealed to me the structure of the future. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
past age earth
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
past race gossip
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. Phyllis McGinley
past men deterioration
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time... Rachel Carson
past reality numbers
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.
past promise remember
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
past self lust
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere. Rabindranath Tagore
past
The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.
past rivers house
I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.
past insight
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight. Plato
past age happenings
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all. Terence McKenna
past thinking years
I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.
past hands flavor
My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader. Teju Cole
past australia people
The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that. Ted Koppel
past depth nightfall
Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast. Ted Hughes
past repentance-and-forgiveness atonement
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. Ted Chiang
past want keep-going
I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward. Ted Danson