Past Quotes

• The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Different
  • Past

• The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.

  

  Jean Fritz
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • People
  • Past

• I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions of dollars. Or people are afraid - they don't know what else to do. It's scary to get out of a relationship of any kind.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Scary

• I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.

  

  Carmen Kass
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Parents

• The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Church
  • Hurt
  • Two

• … the republic of creative minds: each giant calling to his brother through the desolate intervals of time. And undisturbed by the wanton noises of the dwarfs that creep past beneath them, their high spirit-converse continues.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Time
  • High
  • Brother

• A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Present
  • Mirror
  • Memory

• I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Past
  • Present

• It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.

  

  Nelson Peltz
  • Past
  • Failure

• I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Future

• In the past, Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, of which SEAL Team 6 is a key component, has only launched ground raids in Yemen when the lives of hostages held by al Qaeda seemed at risk.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Past
  • Team
  • Risk

• As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

  

  James Buchan
  • World
  • Future
  • Eyes

• One of the beautiful things about having kids is I had no idea how much it will make you look into yourself and who you are and what you believe in and what your past was like and all that kind of stuff. I think it's made me really look at life in a much more intense way.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Kids

• Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.

  

  Anohni
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Political
  • Past
  • Criticism

• I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Believe
  • History
  • Present

• Steffi has had some results in the past, but it's a faster, more athletic game now than when she played.... She is old now. Her time has passed.

  

  Martina Hingis
  • Time
  • She
  • Game

• In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Work
  • Past

• I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Comedy

• I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Past

• My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

  

  Jeff Gannon
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Job

• Free-market economics and tolerance for Chinese violations of trade and commercial protocols did not result in either the liberalization or the democratization of China. Over the past two decades, we have been told that the Japanese, the European Union, and the Chinese successively would eclipse America with their respective superior paradigms.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • America
  • Free
  • Chinese

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