Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, but leave the past!
How could you explain to someone that sometimes it was not worth living in the past when the past was all that they had worth living for?
Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.
Is life like this? Is it a past that goes by, then crumbles away, and a present that runs in the wake of the past, and a future that can only be grasped if one talks of it in the present or past tense?
By recalling God’s past provision, we can reassure ourselves that what He has done in the past, He will do again in the future.
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.
Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and a stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future was the past was not.
The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it.
Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.
Gordon Camrose: You gotta stop living in the past, John. John Smith: Hey, I am the past.
Later in the week Mr Knox's Annie bicycled over to see Stoker and ask her to waive the lien which she had on her sister's services, as they would be required for the weekend. 'She's having dinner at half-past eight on Saturday,' said Annie, when seat...
Half a brain is enough for him who says little.
I've owned mopeds in the past.
Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of which he can remember, but the most he is having trouble remembering. History is transforming the past to a story that the perso...
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When...
