Past Quotes - Page 167

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

The game must have been past my bed-time.

the past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.

At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so very briefly, was of far vaster and deeper import than it truly was. Of all the weapons we chose to turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.