Top past Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Theodore White
Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.
- Theodore White
Collection: Past
Image of Marisha Pessl
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.
- Marisha Pessl
Collection: Past
Image of Jenna Blum
We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?
- Jenna Blum
Collection: Past
Image of Sumner Redstone
I am very pleased with the progress of the new CBS Corporation. The Company's rapid pace of change and innovative approach to emerging business opportunities can be seen in the many strategic announcements we have made over these past few months. The more focused and more nimble organization we sought to create has become a reality and that aggressive spirit of excellence and innovation will continue to benefit shareholders for many years to come.
- Sumner Redstone
Collection: Past
Image of Julius Evola
For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area.
- Julius Evola
Collection: Past
Image of Thomas Love Peacock
I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Collection: Past
Image of Thomas Love Peacock
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Collection: Past
Image of Anna Funder
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
- Anna Funder
Collection: Past
Image of Anna Funder
For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.
- Anna Funder
Collection: Past
Image of Augustine Birrell
I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.
- Augustine Birrell
Collection: Past
Image of Kerstin Gier
The first pair Opal and Amber are, Agate sings in B flat, the wolf avatar, A duet-solutio! - with Aquamarine. Mighty Emerald next, with the lovely Citrine. Number Eight is digestio, her stand is Jade fine. E major's the key of the Black Tourmaline, Sapphire sings in F major, and bright is her sheen. Then almost at once comes Diamond alone, Whose sign of the lion as Leo is known. Projectio! Time flows on, both present and past. Ruby red is the first and is also the last.
- Kerstin Gier
Collection: Past
Image of Andy Roddick
When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).
- Andy Roddick
Collection: Past
Image of Rachel Joyce
The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.
- Rachel Joyce
Collection: Past
Image of Ernest Renan
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.
- Ernest Renan
Collection: Past
Image of David Brin
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.
- David Brin
Collection: Past
Image of Merle Shain
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
- Merle Shain
Collection: Past
Image of Paul Zane Pilzer
In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.
- Paul Zane Pilzer
Collection: Past
Image of Jawaharlal Nehru
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Collection: Past
Image of Mike Tyson
What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery
- Mike Tyson
Collection: Past
Image of Katharine Whitehorn
Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
- Katharine Whitehorn
Collection: Past
Image of F.B. Meyer
Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!
- F.B. Meyer
Collection: Past
Image of Nuala O'Faolain
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
- Nuala O'Faolain
Collection: Past
Image of Anna Paquin
I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds really creepy....You get some of the most interesting pictures because people are walking past not realising you're there.
- Anna Paquin
Collection: Past
Image of Ellen Gilchrist
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.
- Ellen Gilchrist
Collection: Past
Image of Justin Bieber
My world got very big, very fast, and based on a lot of sad examples from the past, a lot of people expect me to get lost in it
- Justin Bieber
Collection: Past
Image of Brian Weiss
Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.
- Brian Weiss
Collection: Past
Image of Lisa Unger
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
- Lisa Unger
Collection: Past
Image of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Collection: Past
Image of Charles Studd
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.
- Charles Studd
Collection: Past
Image of Kentaro Yabuki
You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.
- Kentaro Yabuki
Collection: Past
Image of Paul Samuelson
In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small to read), the following warning appears: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
- Paul Samuelson
Collection: Past
Image of Enoch Powell
Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.
- Enoch Powell
Collection: Past
Image of Sheri S. Tepper
With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.
- Sheri S. Tepper
Collection: Past
Image of David Petraeus
Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some progress in the past several years.
- David Petraeus
Collection: Past
Image of Lynsay Sands
Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage." "Courage?" he asked with confusion. "Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet.
- Lynsay Sands
Collection: Past
Image of Paolo Giordano
It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.
- Paolo Giordano
Collection: Past
Image of Stevie Smith
People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.
- Stevie Smith
Collection: Past
Image of David Klass
You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.
- David Klass
Collection: Past
Image of Susan Beth Pfeffer
We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.
- Susan Beth Pfeffer
Collection: Past
Image of Thandie Newton
The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.
- Thandie Newton
Collection: Past
Image of Alyson Noel
Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.
- Alyson Noel
Collection: Past
Image of Ryan Sheckler
If you feel comfortable by shaving your body, then shave your body. I feel comfortable keeping my body ready by shaving. I don't think it's unmanly to shave; I think that if you can get past that, you're fine.
- Ryan Sheckler
Collection: Past
Image of Ashleigh Brilliant
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Collection: Past
Image of Oliver Stone
The past assumes the nature of the present.
- Oliver Stone
Collection: Past
Image of Herbert Butterfield
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.
- Herbert Butterfield
Collection: Past
Image of Herbert Butterfield
Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history, but their discovery is the glory of historical research. History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.
- Herbert Butterfield
Collection: Past
Image of Susan Polis Schutz
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONLY ONE FOR ME ' - I always want to be with you more than with anyone else. I always want to talk to you before anyone else. I always want to laugh with you * walk with you ? * read with you * play with you * be quiet with you * be noisy with you make plans with you discuss the past and future with you You will always be the person who makes me happy, content, excited and peaceful No matter how much time passes our love will not only prevail but it will be stronger than ever.
- Susan Polis Schutz
Collection: Past
Image of Seth
The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.
- Seth
Collection: Past