Quotes about past
past my-past
I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself. Margaret Atwood
past danger recollection
Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past. Marcus Tullius Cicero
past age aging
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
past years giving
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
past men yield
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul
past greek males
It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.
past trouble pleasant
It is pleasant to recall past troubles.
past remembrance sorrow
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
past thinking old-things
I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things. Marc Almond
past pops chasing
You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.
past thinking opposites
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
past want complexity
Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past. Marc Benioff
past thinking years
I wanted to lose weight when it was my time to lose weight, not because someone's calling me out for it. I've been called the Fat Kardashian Sister for the past ten years. But I could have gone and gotten gastric [bypass surgery] or done liposuction or whatever and I did not feel the need to do that, and I didn't think - I sincerely didn't think anything was "wrong with me." Khloe Kardashian
past my-past bits
My past is a bit checkered. Kid Rock
past thinking views
History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film. Ken Loach
past years balance
I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance. Kelly Clarkson
past next helping
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
past race interesting
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously. Mark Twain
past two people
Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two. Lauren Oliver
past wind broken
I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.
past layers dirt
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
past self killers
We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.
past careful ifs
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
past people waiting
For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future - I can't wait to see who you'll be. And in both cases: Thank you.
past hands trying
In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull. Alex, come back. There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.
past weight stones
The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
past simple
The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now. Larry Poons
past stories moments
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives. Larry Wall
past worrying-too-much important
Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
past profit exile
In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future. Lajos Kossuth
past thinking history
In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry. P. J. O'Rourke
past quality painter
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. Pablo Picasso
past discovery giving
You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.