Top past Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of R.L. LaFevers
He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out.
- R.L. LaFevers
Collection: Past
Image of Laurie Faria Stolarz
I do know that living in the past only messes up your present
- Laurie Faria Stolarz
Collection: Past
Image of Bill Murray
I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it.
- Bill Murray
Collection: Past
Image of Richard Kadrey
As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways of thinking, always questioning their understanding of the world. Going back to old ways, old technology is forbidden. There in no past, no present, only an endless future of inadequacy
- Richard Kadrey
Collection: Past
Image of Heidi W. Durrow
I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.
- Heidi W. Durrow
Collection: Past
Image of ElRay L. Christiansen
This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was to be a period of tremendous importance. It is, in fact, the most vital period of our entire eternal existence. In this mortal state we come face to face with innumerable temptations and pressures. Sometimes we come in contact with advocates of wrongdoing, disobedience, and sin. Lucifer is going about tempting those who can be tempted to see if he can lead them astray.
- ElRay L. Christiansen
Collection: Past
Image of Lori Foster
When Alani started to speak, Jackson held up a finger. In the past five minutes, he'd had more mood swings than a menopausal woman. First turned-on, then territorial, bored, aggressive and now on alert.
- Lori Foster
Collection: Past
Image of Hu Shih
Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.
- Hu Shih
Collection: Past
Image of Joan D. Vinge
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
- Joan D. Vinge
Collection: Past
Image of William Osler
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
- William Osler
Collection: Past
Image of Daniel Webster
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.
- Daniel Webster
Collection: Past
Image of Wendell Berry
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
- Wendell Berry
Collection: Past
Image of Peter Brook
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.
- Peter Brook
Collection: Past
Image of J. Michael Straczynski
The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.
- J. Michael Straczynski
Collection: Past
Image of Todd Solondz
For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way. It's where people go to recreate, to reinvent themselves. It's what California used to be. I think Florida is still a place to erase the past.
- Todd Solondz
Collection: Past
Image of Louis Zamperini
The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.
- Louis Zamperini
Collection: Past
Image of Diane Setterfield
Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?
- Diane Setterfield
Collection: Past
Image of Rich Burlew
I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.
- Rich Burlew
Collection: Past
Image of Ozzy Osbourne
I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.
- Ozzy Osbourne
Collection: Past
Image of Scarlett Thomas
I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.
- Scarlett Thomas
Collection: Past
Image of Arundhati Roy
To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.
- Arundhati Roy
Collection: Past
Image of John Bingham
Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.
- John Bingham
Collection: Past
Image of W. G. Sebald
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.
- W. G. Sebald
Collection: Past
Image of W. G. Sebald
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
- W. G. Sebald
Collection: Past
Image of Tyler Perry
You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better
- Tyler Perry
Collection: Past
Image of Mary Balogh
There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.
- Mary Balogh
Collection: Past
Image of Mary Balogh
Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
- Mary Balogh
Collection: Past
Image of Robert Silverberg
Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.
- Robert Silverberg
Collection: Past
Image of Flann O'Brien
Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.
- Flann O'Brien
Collection: Past
Image of Carl Icahn
When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.
- Carl Icahn
Collection: Past
Image of Tasha Alexander
You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.
- Tasha Alexander
Collection: Past
Image of Christopher Moore
Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt
- Christopher Moore
Collection: Past
Image of Ric Ocasek
Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons
- Ric Ocasek
Collection: Past
Image of Lora Leigh
Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.
- Lora Leigh
Collection: Past
Image of Janet Yellen
The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.
- Janet Yellen
Collection: Past
Image of Janet Yellen
By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then.
- Janet Yellen
Collection: Past
Image of Ahmed Yassin
In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.
- Ahmed Yassin
Collection: Past
Image of Siri Hustvedt
Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.
- Siri Hustvedt
Collection: Past
Image of Arthur Miller
The brain heals the past like an injury.
- Arthur Miller
Collection: Past
Image of Paul Murray
Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.
- Paul Murray
Collection: Past
Image of Susan Glaspell
Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.
- Susan Glaspell
Collection: Past
Image of Susan Glaspell
What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.
- Susan Glaspell
Collection: Past
Image of William Nicholson
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
- William Nicholson
Collection: Past
Image of Martial
To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
- Martial
Collection: Past
Image of Kent Nerburn
Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.
- Kent Nerburn
Collection: Past
Image of Thomas Peterffy
It seems like people don't learn from the past.
- Thomas Peterffy
Collection: Past
Image of Thomas S. Monson
When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.
- Thomas S. Monson
Collection: Past
Image of Kent Haruf
I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.
- Kent Haruf
Collection: Past