Past Quotes

• The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Never
  • Modern

• Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • World
  • School
  • History

• I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Done
  • Past

• A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Together
  • Past
  • Choices

• By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • World
  • Education
  • Learning

• Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Money
  • Past
  • Singing

• When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Home
  • Wife

• while the shadows like long fingers over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Long
  • Past

• Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Women
  • Past
  • Now

• When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Future

• You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Live
  • Future
  • Conversation

• In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.

  

  Max Heindel
  • Life
  • Long
  • Vision

• While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Future
  • Giving
  • Audience

• Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Past
  • Always
  • Now

• I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Past
  • Evil
  • Beginning

• I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Heart
  • Me
  • Wish

• I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Trouble
  • Emotions
  • Open

• Ah, my Belov'ed fill the Cup that clears To-day Past Regrets and Future Fears: To-morrow! - Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • May
  • Future

• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Men
  • She

• At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • History
  • Future
  • Black

• By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Moving On

• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Different
  • Myself

• I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Desire
  • Body
  • Ashamed

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