Past Quotes
758 Past quotes:
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
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"Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writ"
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"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."
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"The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions."
Past Quotes
Anniversaries Quotes
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"The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?"
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"To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another."
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"With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame."
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"The mill cannot grind with the water that is past"
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"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past."
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"Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that are past it is needless to blame."
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"Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain"
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"The past is never forgotten; it's never even past"
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"Thy plaintive anthem fades / Past the near meadows, over the still stream, / Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep / In the next valley-glades: / Was it a vision or a waking dream? / Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?"
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"In the past, cars from Hyundai often didn't perform as well as many competitors in our safety tests. Structure is the key to providing good protection in a frontal crash because if the occupant compartment buckles or crumples, the safety belts and airbags cannot do a good job of protecting the people inside. The structure of the new Sonata is a dramatic improvement."
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"We've been concerned about the costs in the past, but they've done a remarkable job in bringing costs down, ... It's now a highly regarded, very efficient airport."
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"The demands of the entitlement system are here. This has major implications for an aging population facing past promises made in a very different world. All of these unfunded liabilities are coming together."
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"Over this past month, the pattern has essentially gotten stuck. At this point we're not seeing a breakdown in that pattern."
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"We're missing some of the veteran studs we had in lineup in years past, but we're looking forward to another good season."
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"I'm really proud of the school for the past four years. This program used to be a joke until coach Joyce came in and turned it around. We put in four years of hard work and turned it around. The hard work really paid off."
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"It's a bill that's long past due. Most people don't recognize that a large percentage of our population is still being discriminated against."
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