Past Quotes
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Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.
Octavio Paz -
Time flies, and what is past is done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass -
Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
Kim Jong-un -
I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
Courteney Cox -
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
Virginia Gildersleeve
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In the past, I had these really high-tech boardshorts.
John John Florence -
Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the public will be worse.
Chris Pavone -
My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.
Ken Livingstone -
There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.
Franz Kafka -
Never tripping off the past, I would rather never mind 'em/'Cause only fools trip over something that be behind 'em
Fabolous -
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
Ernest Mandel
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If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.
Kay Arthur -
What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.
Sargent Shriver -
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
Lisa Gardner -
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace.
Eckhart Tolle -
I do miss England. Well, I miss the idea of England, I think. But I haven't been back for years. I probably just miss the past.
Leonora Carrington -
Before I drop in, I tend to knock on my snowboard. You know how when you jinx yourself, they're like, 'Knock on wood.' My snowboard's wood, so in case I jinxed myself sometime in the past, I just knock on my board. It just makes me feel a lot more comfortable.
Chloe Kim
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Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting,I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
Lady Gaga -
If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion -
I always think clothing is like a scrapbook: you remember all the good memories and the past times.
Cynthia Rowley -
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
Ryszard Kapuscinski