The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was offered daily soaps in the past but that was something I did not want to take up. — Varun Sharma Copy Share Image
“The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers.” — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Short term political calculations of the past must give way to long-term investments for the future. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The past is like using the rear view mirror of a car. It's good to glance back but starring too long ends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image