Past Quotes
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I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."
Sandra Cisneros
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I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.
Terrence J
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God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
Ginger Baker
Cream
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We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.
Sarah Dessen
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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves
Ray Bradbury
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Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.
Anthony Robbins
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The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.
Susanne Langer
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...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.
Susan Howatch
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... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
George Eliot
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Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.
Nikki Grimes
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Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
Peter Sotos
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Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.
Cate Marvin
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For me, everything happens for a reason. I'm thankful that it happened because it saved me from the past, and now I can move forward and meet the person that was destined to be with me."
Nikki Gil
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Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.
Nikki Haley
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What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our future is just as goopy with sentiment as our past. To me, they're the same, both very tempting, and I don't believe in either, although the idealism is probably important.
Charles D'Ambrosio
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the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.
Sara Zarr
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I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.
Carol Matas
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To make every little thing special is to grant a magical quality to your life. Once your life becomes charmed in such a way, whatever blocks you may have experienced in the past melt in the light of that inner energy pouring from your heart. From a businessman's point of view, this is beautiful, for everything you touch turns to gold. Further, it helps you to believe in yourself. In seeing worth all around, you make your every act an affirmation of your strength.
Stuart Wilde
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The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
Story Musgrave
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.
Tom Hayden
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An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.
Michael Aspel