Quotes of: Recent-past Keyword

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

Stone of Farewell

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Salem Falls

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

The Summer Girls

Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance

Sarah's Key

We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past

Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.

Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past

Stop being a slave to your past and you become the master of your future.

A Motivational Masterclass: Life Changing Quotes

... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

I know who you are...I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.

Love Exactly

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

A Lion Among Men

A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

Lady Oracle

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past