Past Quotes
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How long did it take for a past to die?
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Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
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In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
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The Ojibways have great respect for the Bear. According to their legends, in the distant past the Bear had a human form and was in fact an ancestor of the Ojibways. Therefore he understands the Indian language and will never attack or fight any Indian if he is addressed properly.
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When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.
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Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.
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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.
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Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.
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Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
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A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.
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I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."
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For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.
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I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.
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The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!
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Getting to the future is always held up by those trying to protect the past.
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The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
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On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.
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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
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It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.
