Past Quotes

... 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
- Past
- Sympathy
- Confession
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
- Past
- Come
- Suppose

I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the past, and they're always just trying different styles.

Brett Gelman
- Beauty
- Styles
- Adult Swim
Whereas the future had once beckoned with many intriguing paths, now there was just one impossible route. So it was into the past, with its rich sedimentary layers, that my mind would go instead.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- Past
- Layers
- Route
Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

Gerald Warner
The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

Terry Eagleton
- Past
- Feels
"Normal science" means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice.

Thomas Kuhn
- Science
- Community
- Mean