Past Quotes
Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past.
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.
The doctor brushed past her and gestured at the holographic image that jutted from the netscreen. "Let me tell you what is peculiar about it" "I'd say 36.28 percent of it is pretty peculiar
Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.
There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.
La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.
In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes aware that the direction of the world can change.
Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.
The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.
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.
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.
The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.
The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.
Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.
I kind of just roll up on stage. I realize that as soon as I find myself wearing something that I haven't worn ten times in the past, I'm like, "Who am I right now? I don't recognize myself!"
You can't really move forward if you don't heal the past and identify and address the fact that you had a problem and in some cases still have issues. That has to be dealt with.
A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.
It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.
I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once.
The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.
The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.
You have to look past the cool things and play the game. That's why you're here, to play the game.