Past Quotes - Page 124

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.

Allow me to correct you on two things: number one, the reason John Cena isn't here tonight has nothing to do with you. John Cena isn't here because I destroyed him in our match, this past week, in Pennsylvania. And number two, you're not the leader of the Nexus, I am.

With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for nearly half a millennium can now be opened to see what really has happened to our planet in the past -- and that past is not as distant as we might suppose.

Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to anybody, because it would be very tough to get past where they are.

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and those who have directed its affairs throughout its existence. If you want to have an understanding of any business, it is important to know the background of the people who started it and directed its past and the hopes and ambitions of those who are planning its future.

Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.