Quotes of: Past Keyword

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

Mark Strong

Forgiveness is probably the most important self-esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts abo...

Empowerment Basics

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, —that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?...But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihila...

1984

My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak...

Whistling Past the Graveyard

We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply feel our emotional pain in order to accept that what is happening is not what we wanted. pg 155

What's Important Now: Shedding The Past So You Can Live In The Present

One might also say that history is not about the past. If you think about it, no one ever lived in the past. Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, and their contemporaries didn't walk about saying, "Isn't this fascinating living in the past! Aren't we p...

David McCullough

When the heat has past, you forget about the shade tree.

Japanese

Your past history is NOT an excuse.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.

Fifth Grave Past the Light

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

God Emperor of Dune

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me.

Barefoot Christianity

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

David Rockefeller

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

The Inner Circle

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

Irish Fairy Tales

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The Principles of Scientific Management

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

Picture Perfect

...some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.

The Program

...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Translations

you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.

Thousand Words

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

What Happened to Goodbye