Quotes of: Recent-past Keyword

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

Ernest Gaines

Don't stare at the past or you'll walk right by today's opportunity. Today is God's gift to you.

Benjamin Lotter

Your experiences, past, gifts and abilities are tools for purposeful living. Harness them and destiny shows up!

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Charles Horton Cooley

I had to start new, my ego told me that if past ever wanted me, I won't be calling it by that name.

Garima Mittal

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

Gordon Parks

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

Helena Blavatsky

Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision of the future.

Joshua Rogers

Anything you like; anything I like... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us

Jean Rhys

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

Julian Schnabel

Our past doesn’t define us, rather, it’s the courses we take after that tells us who we really are.

Jocelyn Sanchez

Yesterday is the last day of the past. Tomorrow is brimming with hope, so today is meant to lived large. Enjoy your moments!

David Grachek

You gained experience from your past action. Set goals for the future; act now with imagination.

Debasish Mridha

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Joe Eszterhas

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Jonathan Safran Foer

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Charles Edison

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Hank Aaron

This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.

Joe Henderson

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

Joyce Carol Oates

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Philip Zimbardo