Quotes of: Forget-the-past Keyword

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

Allen West

A related question is where in time to begin. Should you begin far back in a character's past and move forward, or should you begin in the present and make use of flashbacks only where necessary? ... If the material with which you want to open the st...

Creating Fiction

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The origin of illness may be in the past, but the virulent crisis must be dynamically tackled. I believe in attacking the core of the illness, through its present symptoms, quickly, directly. The past is a labyrinth. One does not have to step into it...

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Living your life through negative feelings and memories is doing yourself a dishonour.If you want to change you need to be willing to leave your past wounds behind you. -If you wish to remain stuck in your attachment to past pains then dare to ask yo...

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the unive...

Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future

Widge can see the past." Poppet says suddenly. "That's why his stories are so good." "The past is easier," Widget says. "It's already there." "In the stars?" Bailey asks. "No." Widget says. "On people. The past stays on you the way powdered sugar sta...

The Night Circus

We live in the present all the time and the past does not matter anymore. Only if we can understand this in the past, when the past is the present, we would be able to live every moment with satisfaction and joy. Only if we understand that the quarre...

Weapon of Mass Construction

If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to r...

Howard Zinn

Life is good - we forget that.

Maryam D'Abo

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Maurice Chevalier

See with your mind, Speak with your heart, Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.

Elysian Dreams: Where the Past Meets the Present

You can’t get back the time in the past. You can’t change it. You can only make sure to learn and move forward.

Forgiven

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

Great Expectations

If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.

The Gift of Past Relationships

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always

Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there's any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life.

Blacker than Black

It is impossible to move forward with one foot planted in the past.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.

David Weinberger

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

Antony Gormley

The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.

Daniel Boulud