Quotes of: Half-past Keyword

The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.

The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

He couldn’t count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.

Before the Legend

Holding on to negative feelings and past circumstances is like placing a lock on your soul.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.

Blue Moon

Eventually we all must return home, Praetor. We must embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark." — Orion

The Blood of Olympus

Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?

Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

Blast from the Past

A blanket could be used as an inherently destructive force, if you can just get past the brick stage. 

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

Berg, while the go-to guy for decisions for past campaigns, engaged in frequent and successful battles against sobriety.

Brede: An erotic fairy tale

You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.

City of Fallen Angels

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Alex Campbell

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Charles R. Swindoll

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

Anne Fortier

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

Sky Ferreira

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

Ernest Lawrence

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Jonathan Sacks

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

Pamela Anderson

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

John Portman

To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.

Josh Holloway

And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead

The 5th Wave