Past Quotes - Page 361

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.

Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.

People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write songs and what goes into them. You can listen to Mountain Goats from 1991 to 2007 and never hear a seventh chord. In 2007 or 2008, I started working on the piano to grow as a songwriter. I started throwing major sevens in and sixes and more interesting stuff.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.

It took some time for us to realize that [people] didn't particularly say they didn't like us or have the love for us that they had in the past, nor the respect. I think they chose to leave based on the fact that they felt a reprisal for being associated or having a friendship with John Carlos or Tommie Smith, or Peter Norman, for that matter.

There are a lot of pastors who have a vision and have not yet seen it become a reality.

As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches.

Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without.

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

I think that Anderson Cooper does a great job of staying with stories and pushing them. New Orleans he really... He was there and he pushed it past the point where his producers were saying, "Listen, you've got to stop because people are tuning out now. You know, we're on to another disaster." You know, what do you worry about, Haiti, Chile, Turkey? What? You know where do you put your attention and your focus? So for one person to really be able to cover all that ground would be tough.

A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.