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Past Quotes by George Eliot
- For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul…
- The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to…
- The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we…
- Breed is stronger than pasture.
- I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
- Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies…
- Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire…
- If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
- Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new…
- In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has…
- With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is…
More Past Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach