Quotes of: Half-past Keyword

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Sushmita Banerjee

The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.

Sanhita Baruah

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

Matthew Perry

Leave the past as beautifully as it needs to be a road map for your present and future

Mohammad Rishad sakhi

I know the different ways that I have lost. I think that's beneficial to me because I know how I got in those situations in the past, and I know how to avoid those situations.

Michelle Waterson

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

Giovanni Ribisi

If you want to master your past at some point in time you’ll have to learn forgiveness.

Chris Vonada

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

Jonathan Miller

No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.

Norman Finkelstein

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Swami Sivananda

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

Cher

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

Alex Trebek

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

James Altucher

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.

Claire Tomalin

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

George Eliot

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

James McAvoy

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Marcus Garvey

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson