Past Quotes

• Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Past
  • Green

• The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • Past
  • Proud

• But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Past
  • Fight
  • View

• Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

  

  Edward M. Purcell
  • Work
  • Long
  • Science

• The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Future
  • Memories
  • Plans

• The Green Arrow stuff that I've responded to from the past is the Mike Grell stuff. I've liked a lot of other stuff, but I think for me, the direction and the mood and the tone that I really want is something much darker and more aggressive and really fast-paced action.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Action
  • Green
  • Mood

• Our slender life runs rippling by, and glidesInto the silent hollow of the past;What is there that abidesTo make the next age better for the last?

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Life
  • Age
  • Past

• Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Future
  • Knowledge
  • Study

• The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

  

  Charles James
  • Past

• In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw you in a completely different direction. You just thought, 'What if I take this samba drum and combined it with an '80s synth line or something from this record?'

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Good
  • Different
  • Past

• Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Black
  • Speak

• There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Imagination
  • Ideas
  • Looks

• What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Future
  • Magic
  • Fluid

• As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Future
  • Past
  • California

• You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.

  

  William Finnegan
  • Certain
  • Intense
  • Dragons

• I don't want you to look at my skin and think "white" or look at my heritage and think "Mexican." I want you to look at me and see me as a human being, and hopefully, we can get past all of this other stuff. It's asking a lot, of course, but there's only one way you fight extremists on both sides, whether it be racist or not, and that's by looking past me, getting bigger than that, letting them not affect you, drawing from it and sticking together with the like-minded people you have around you.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Together

• When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

  

  Kanye West
  • Past
  • Competition

• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  

  Gene Fowler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Heart

• The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

  

  Jonathan Miller
  • Experience
  • Past

• Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation-a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

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