Past Quotes
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The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
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The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.
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It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.
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The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.
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We can dive to the bottom of the sea and some say NASA will fly us to the stars, and I have known men to plunge into the past-or the future-and drown. But there's one place where we can't go. We can't go where we are already. We can't go home, because our minds, and our hearts, and our immortal souls are already there there.
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I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.
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I'm trying to put the past to rest, but things just keep popping up to just pull me back in.
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I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!
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The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.
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We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.
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It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
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The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.
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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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You can't continue to reflect on the past.
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Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
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The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
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One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too.
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If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.
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The present is the key to the past.
