Quotes of: Recent-past Keyword

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

The Law of Similars

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent’s past, there’s leftover booze and contraceptives.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

One bad habit people do way past the age they should be doing it is living. The youth of today, they’re so old.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

Spiral Road

When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Let your strength from the past provide proof of your abilities to . . . conquer the difficulties of the present.

For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

The Sweet Far Thing

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.

The Storyteller

In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

So Long, See You Tomorrow

but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past

The Space Between Us

It’s not what you have done in your past, but what you are doing for your future that counts!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing.

Travels in Hyperreality

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

The Old Man and the Sea

My past is trying to catch up to me and I must continue run from it. It's the only way I can live.

Program 13

You didn't judge my past. That's when I knew I couldn't turn away from you even if I tried...

Perfectly Damaged

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Pride and Prejudice

Forget the past, think of future, remember God's goodness and His power and ability to take you to where you ought to be and establish you.

The Prince and the Pauper

MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers

Profound Vers-A-Tales

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

The Promise - Yposchesi