Distant Past Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

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
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
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
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
The poetic image [â€¦] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with… — Gaston Bachelard
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
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 Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity.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
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
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
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries. — Gaston Bachelard
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
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
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
The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct — Joyce Carol Oates
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt â€” we are phantoms… — Jostein Gaarder
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
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
[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
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. Weâ€™re… — Haruki Murakami
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

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