Past Quotes - Page 109

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!

I don't like to dwell on the past.

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.

A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare novel that brings the gritty, rural past to vivid life. I could very nearly smell the moonshine (the moonshiners too!). Pass a few hours with Mary Bet Hartsoe and family. You won't regret it.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Give the best you have received from the past to the best that you may come to know in the future. Accept life daily not as a cup to be drained but as a chalice to be filled with whatsoever things are honest, pure, lovely, and of good report. Making a living is best undertaken as part of the more important business of making a life. Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands-a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace, and above all the assurance that you are not alone in the world.

I can't. At least not for a while. I need time to get past this and I can't guarantee that I won't hurt him again. God knows, Nick has a true gift for saying the wrong thing in any given situation. (Acheron) You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)

I'm a huge pasta and pizza lover. I can eat those every single day.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.

Laugh about the past and dream about the future.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.