Top past Quotes Collection
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.Collection: Past
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.Collection: Past
Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.Collection: Past
What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.Collection: Past
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.Collection: Past
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.Collection: Past
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.Collection: Past
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.Collection: Past
The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.Collection: Past
Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.Collection: Past
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.Collection: Past
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternityCollection: Past
But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.Collection: Past
The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.Collection: Past
Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me.Collection: Past
The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.Collection: Past
Over the past three decades, markets and market thinking have been reaching into spheres of life traditionally governed by non-market norms. As a result, we've drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society.Collection: Past
A true God chaser is not happy with just past truth; he must have present truth. God chasers don't want to just study from the moldy pages of what God has done; they're anxious to see what God is doing.Collection: Past
You are not free until your past has no effect on your futureCollection: Past
Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.Collection: Past
The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.Collection: Past
Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.Collection: Past
There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.Collection: Past
The older you get the more you live in the pastCollection: Past
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.Collection: Past
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.Collection: Past
What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.Collection: Past
The past is never where you think you left it.Collection: Past
Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.Collection: Past
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.Collection: Past
The past is a kind of future that has already happened.Collection: Past
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.Collection: Past
It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.Collection: Past
We cannot build the future by avenging the past.Collection: Past
You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them backCollection: Past
If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.Collection: Past
When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.Collection: Past
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.Collection: Past
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.Collection: Past
If your past is limited, your future is boundless.Collection: Past
At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.Collection: Past
Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.Collection: Past
The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it has a time component and it's all about details. The right hemisphere is more about the right now-right here experience where everything is an enormous collage of all the sensory systems flooding into our brains.Collection: Past
If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.Collection: Past
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by itCollection: Past
The past is dead, and has no resurrection.Collection: Past
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.Collection: Past
The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.Collection: Past
In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.Collection: Past