Past Quotes
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
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"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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What is called Nothingness is to be found only in time and in speech. In time it stands between the past and future and has no existence in the present; and thus in speech it is one of the things of which we say: They are not, or they are impossible.
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"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
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I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
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It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.
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We are past the stage in our relations that you come to Washington with an empty goody bag and then you go back with a bag filled with stuff.
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I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.
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While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
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When I was inspecting the guard of honor and as I walked past one person, I saw through the corner of my eye some movement. Then I saw a man reverse his rifle at me. I ducked down a little bit in a reflex action. By my ducking, he missed my head and the brunt of the blow came on my shoulder below the left ear.
