Quotes about past
past trying kind
I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present. Victoria Azarenka
past years political
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus. Victor Davis Hanson
past giving progress
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die. Victor Hugo
past reign planning
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
past echoes reflexes
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
past thinking today
I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future. Vernon Davis
past deceit ends
... there is no end to the deceits of the past ... Vernon Lee
past simple men
At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom. Richard Bach
past world body
In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia. Robert Fogel
past men impact
Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or 'cliometric' history-born of the marriage contracted between historical problems and advanced statistical analysis, with economic theory as bridesmaid and the computer as best man-has made tremendous advances in the last generation.
past years feelings
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling Robert Fulghum
past two bird
Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere. Robert Bly
past enough
It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future. Rita Levi-Montalcini
past
Future is not extrapolation of past Vinod Khosla
past years sky
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs—out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time—chant, not of the past only, but of the future... Walt Whitman
past majesty vacant
The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
past waiting insightful
the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die Saul Williams
past people labels
The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have been Revolutionaries and Tories regardless of the labels of the past and present. Regardless of whether they were Federalists, Democrat-Republicans, Whigs, Know-Nothings, Free Soilers, Unionists or Confederates, Populists, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Communists, or Progressives. They have been and are profiteers and patriots. They have been and are conservatives, liberals, and radicals. Saul Alinsky
past world headings
I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride. Sarah Dessen
past should-have secret
This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
past way ends
The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
past chance this-life
But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.
past together world
No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
past remember-you remembers-you
Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
past faces doe
It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future". Sandra Brown
past decision tough
[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public. Sandra Day O'Connor
past
I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it." Sandra Cisneros
past remember instant
We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living. Rose Wilder Lane
past dwell-on-the-past persons
I'm a person who really doesn't dwell on the past. Ronnie Lott
past names patient
Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past. Rohinton Mistry
past hands europe
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past Roger Scruton
past want live-in-the-present
Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past. Roger Ebert
past boards my-past
I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do. Robin Trower