Pasts Quotes

49 quotes by 46 authors

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts — Ray J
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it… — Guy Gavriel Kay
The future is more beautiful than all the pasts. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the… — Lewis B. Smedes
Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have… — L. Ron Hubbard
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in… — Michel de Certeau
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memoryâ€”childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle… — Dani Shapiro
If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux,… — Frederick Lenz
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do… — James Hillman
There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts,… — Alasdair MacIntyre
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for hauntingâ€™s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder… — Elizabeth Bowen
Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others. — Jean-Luc Godard
Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of… — Robin Hobb
Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies? — Brian K. Vaughan
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in… — Terry Eagleton
We all have our painful pasts we have to get through. — Valerie Bertinelli
All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them. — John Fowles
Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like… — Lisa Unger
The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present. — Jonathan Safran Foer

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