Distant Past Quotes
32 quotes by 29 authors
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The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the…
— Octavio Paz
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We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was…
— Jimmy Carter
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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…
— Norval Morrisseau
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The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with…
— Gaston Bachelard
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We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past
— Dmitri Volkogonov
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It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves…
— C.S. Lewis
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The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of…
— Yoshida Kenko
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All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or…
— Peter Singer
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Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs…
— Maria Montessori
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One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now,…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
— Joyce Carol Oates
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When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms…
— Jostein Gaarder
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People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to…
— Gloria Whelan
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But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more…
— Marcel Proust
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[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work…
— Daniel Quinn
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Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re…
— Haruki Murakami
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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where…
— Leo Tolstoy
Who Wrote These Distant Past Quotes
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