Quotes of: Past-life Keyword

When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what...

John Dryden

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the i...

The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy

The past is a curious thing. It’s with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it’s got no reality, it’s just a set of facts that you’ve ...

Coming Up for Air

And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that what he does and who he is isn't based on the past unless he wants it to be... No. That is the past, which has been seen diffe...

How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets

But however minimal, however threadbare, it (collective memory) is ballast of a kind. We all need that seven-eighths of the iceberg, the ballast of the past, a general past, the place from which we came. That is why history should be taught in school...

Penelope Lively

Ferrari: How odd, Borges, it seems that we are talking constantly through memory. Sometimes, our conversations remind me of a dialogue between two memories. Borges: In fact, that’s what it is. If we are something, we are our past, aren’t we? Our ...

Jorge Luis Borges

Kessler depicts his developing intimacy with a handful of dairy goats and offers an enviable glimpse of the pastoral good life. Yet he also cautions, "Wherever the notion of paradise exists, so does the idea that it was lost. Paradise is always in th...

The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America

We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event and fail to mention some other; such a critique is proper (it cannot fail to be), but it doesn't count for much...

Ignorance

I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or 'fearlessly'- into my own future: this time of utter raw anguished loss. Though I may have had, since adolescence, a kind of inte...

A Widow's Story

When you see recurring problems, the methods you’ve used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.

Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.

On the Concept of History

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

Choke

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.

The Cat Past and Present

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

Davita's Harp

Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.

Exploring Celtic Spirituality

Since I had a soft spot for zombies and my curiosity was killing me, I opted for plan Z.

Fifth Grave Past the Light

Everyone’s past has ways of sneaking up on them. You just have to be in a place in the present that you’re strong enough to deal with when your past comes to visit.

Heart Breaths

He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.

Home Front

Karma's a bitch with a broken heart. But she wears a smile on her face because she's the queen of revenge.

Hidden World: Past, Present and Future

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms