Quotes about past
past years numbers
During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved. Lennox Lewis
past
Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered. Laura Anne Gilman
past law ideas
Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts. L. Ron Hubbard
past joy waiting
There are vistas never dreamed of, there are joys never even known, there are glories no past glory ever surpassed. These wait for you but only if you accept my legacy and help bring these things about.
past men hands
Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field.
past flip
I take references from the past and flip them. Theophilus London
past expectations people
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself. Theresa May
past firsts persons
I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.
past care would-be
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future. Therese of Lisieux
past giving may
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE. Terry Pratchett
past understanding erratic
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
past viewpoints form
The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present. Terry Eagleton
past vienna peculiar
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.
past doe truth-is
The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
past philosopher curious
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
past used
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
past wizards life-is
Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past. Terry Goodkind
past giving interesting
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. Terri Windling
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 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
past wish transition
Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ? Randall Jarrell
past dry-bones generations
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? Ralph Waldo Emerson
past transition moments
Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.
past soul self-reliance
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
past slave plunge
Be not the slave of your own past.
past optimism today
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
past snakes history
Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
past focus care
I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it. Sebastian Vettel
past auras mystery
There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past. Scarlett Johansson