Quotes about past
past texture ambience
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present. Paul Scott
past barbers ifs
If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut. Paul Merson
past reality deals
You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future. Paul Mooney
past anything-can-happen cant-change
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
past perfection tears
Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past. Paul Hindemith
past president aftermath
In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence. Paul Johnson
past forget repeats
He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it. Paul Christopher
past artist add
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. Paul Cezanne
past interesting doubt
I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life. Patricia Velasquez
past curtains charm
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. Oscar Wilde
past secret doe
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
past age tasks
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
past details remember
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
past charm past-present-future
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
past should-have years
She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now. Maeve Binchy
past today my-past
I am everything I am today, because of my past. Maajid Nawaz
past challenges soul
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
past might lasts
Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past. Lyman Abbott
past errors perspective
So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own! Lydia M. Child
past want next
I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady. Lulu
past evil atheism
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused? Lucretius
past years giving
Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years. Louis Leakey
past men race
People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have a common origin and that our differences in race, colour and creed are only superficial.
past done demand
I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning. Louis Kahn
past men years
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
past shadow way
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.
past past-life
I just learned that, even though in a past life, I was a model, too. Liv Tyler
past guy different
(Andy Roddick's) a different kind of guy. I don't spend a lot of time with him. His coach in the past (Tarik Benhabiles), I didn't have a lot of time for at all. He was a bigger problem than Andy. Lleyton Hewitt
past feminist activist
I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past 25 years of my life speaking truth to power. And using humor to do that. Lizz Winstead
past achievement trying
It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements. Michael Jackson
past ideas people
The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past. Michael Dell
past want trophies
I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now! Mia Hamm
past moments pondering
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always. Mark Twain