Quotes of: Recent-past Keyword

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

Bellman & Black

Dwelling on your past won't get you anywhere you haven't already been.

Beyond Our Control

I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.

Banal Nationalism

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

Blast from the Past

Big events, small, mundane moments of the day–it doesn’t matter; the past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

Butterfly Weeds

Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.

Chantress Alchemy

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

John Updike

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.

Nancy Werlin

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

Richard Elman

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Angela Carter

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usef...

E. T. Bell

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Jerry Saltz

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Jerry Saltz

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.

1984

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

2001: A Space Odyssey

The past is always more innocent, because it exists peacefully in the unreachable and unchangeable parts of the imagination.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

Adam Bede