Quotes of: Half-past Keyword

This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past the future.

Duplex

There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

The Divorce Party

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

The Devil's Web

In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated in...

Eternity's Reach

The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And you know that there is no past, no future, there is only this blackness, changing faintly, slowly, but always the same.

Good Morning, Midnight

She was dangerous. I’d heard the rumors, that she had a history as a wild woman, that she’d been married to a gambler, maybe even been one herself, that her past was scandalous at best. But who was I to judge? My past was littered with scandal.

Gambling on the Outlaw

The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.

Gestalt Therapy Integrated: Contours of Theory & Practice

In the end...hatred will consume, divide and destroy even the strongest of nations. It's devastating powers has destroyed in the past & still can destroy today.

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

William looked up... through his tears... past the catwalk and lights... past the sky... through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in, alone, and asked, 'Why?

The Brandywine Prophet

The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?

The Bet

It is impossible to create if you live in the past or obsessing about the future. Live in the Present where you can design your future.

Closer to Death, Closer to God: True Stories of a Spiritual Awakening

In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla cake doesn't have to be just vanilla, it can have a little thyme. Or you could have a custard with a litt...

Ron Ben-Israel

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls ...

1984

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained

In the past people only added to their minds. Now people can become complete and live in heaven if they subtract what is in their minds.

Stop Living In This Land, Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness, Live There Forever

The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.

On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was.

The Magus

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it.

Millennium People