Past Quotes
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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
John Sladek -
The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future.
Ayi Kwei Armah
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There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.
Virginia Woolf -
Over the past decade or so, you have seen the flip side of that as you've seen stock prices have come down a lot relative to gold. Now you are getting a change where people are more comfortable holding gold because in the rear-view mirror it doesn't look so bad for gold. Bonds have not come down as much relative to gold, but I think the bond bubble is going to burst and will be falling for years too. And gold will look that much better.
Peter Schiff -
Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.
Vladimir Nabokov -
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Many people feel duty-bound to express skepticism as if it were an automatic badge of honor and intellectual superiority. I'd done the same thing in the past, so I could understand the attitude.
Jane Roberts -
It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.
Alexandra Bracken
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.
Ernest Lawrence -
Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.
Walt Disney -
I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
William H. Macy -
I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
Karl Lagerfeld -
The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player.
Anthony Greenwald -
I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.
Cindy Margolis
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I have a special ability to spot TV shows that don't go past two seasons; that's my gift.
Lizzy Caplan -
Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.
Sandra Cisneros -
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 -
The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.
Dalai Lama -
Our past has gone into history.
William McKinley -
Does the hon. Lady agree that private medicine is a drain on the NHS and takes resources away from those who cannot afford to buy their way past the hospital queues? Does she further agree that it would be logical to remove pay beds and privatised services from NHS hospitals and bring back direct labour? Would that be alliance policy?
Jeremy Corbyn
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I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
John Wooden -
The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.
George Sarton -
When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future.
Tommy Chong -
Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
Joyce Meyer