Past Quotes

• 'One white rose . . . or is it pink, to-day?'They pause and smile, not caring what they say,If only they may talk.The crowd flows past them like dividing waters.Dreaming they stand, dreaming they walk.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • May
  • Smile
  • Rose

• I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

  

  Scott Hamilton
  • Ahead
  • Look Back
  • Defining

• Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning story and an alien intelligence so creepy, you'll pray NASA never makes it past the moon.

  

  J. C. Hutchins
  • Future
  • Space
  • Smart

• Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thing
  • Bored
  • Cynical

• It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Society
  • Past

• I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

  

  Bill Kurtis
  • Experience
  • Value
  • Present

• Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Past
  • Forgiveness

• American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Parents
  • Clever
  • Girls

• I'd love to wrestle a Bruiser Brody or Andre the Giant from the past.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Past

• Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

  

  John Portman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Why
  • Future
  • Choices

• Green Arrow has gone through so many changes; he's been right-wing, he's been left-wing, he's been rich, he's been poor, he's been a social justice guy, then when I got him, he was a rich playboy guy. So it was a lot harder to get into a character that has so many personas in the past, and I just looked at his anger.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Justice

• We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Time
  • History
  • Thoughts

• Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, and it will go way past us and way past India. Given the growth, the size, the opportunities, I don't think there's any other place in the world that can match it.

  

  David Rubenstein
  • World
  • Past
  • Growth

• Don't sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you're afraid of. Or deal with it.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Past

• We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

  

  T. H. White
  • Future
  • Past

• My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

  

  Nobuyoshi Araki
  • Feels
  • Representation
  • Diaries

• I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Past
  • Marriage
  • Divorce

• The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

  

  Ken Hensley
  • Past
  • Value

• The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

  

  Paul Scott
  • Past
  • Present
  • Ambience

• A Vast Machine watched and evaluated them, remembering their past actions and predicting their future behavior.

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • Future
  • Past

• My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'

  

  Lisa Tuttle
  • People
  • Past
  • Risk

• Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Nature
  • Gold
  • Natural

• I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Up
  • Night
  • Parents

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