Past Quotes - Page 403

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

I always think clothing is like a scrapbook: you remember all the good memories and the past times.

The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with the capitalist ones that we have a fair chance of winning against. In that way we build a better world and shrink the destructive capitalist practices that are part of the social fabric.

My repertoire is small, but I can make a pretty tasty pasta sauce from scratch.

The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future.

Pittsburgh has this rich industrial past, when it was the heart of the U.S. steel industry, and it burned out as the industry burned out and moved elsewhere.

Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.

I have to say the thing that I want to do so badly is design a line. I still don't know exactly what direction I want to go but designing a line for full-figured women, offering them a chance to have chic clothing that's maybe a little more daring than the clothing they've been offered in the past, I would like the opportunity to create that for them. I'd also like to break into the beauty industry and be the face of a makeup line. I think for it sends a fantastic message: Here's the face of beauty and look, she's a bigger size.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.

I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ.

If you go back in history, the most deadly parts of the hurricane has been water. Wind is actually not as deadly as people think it is, although they tend to look at the wind field and look at that as a risk. What has historically killed people in past from hurricanes has been water, storm surge. That Hurricane Hugo's coastal flooding has been the leading cause of death. And that's why we're so adamant about getting people to evacuate. We spend a lot of time and resources to map those areas ahead of time. But it only works if people heed those evacuations and go to higher ground.

It's really easy, in a band, to overstate - you feel like everything you do is different than the past. I think this is just another Hold Steady record, but at the same time, there is some evolution. Like, "How can we make this chorus bigger?" "What do we want this to sound like?"

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.