Recent Past Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

• The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. — Theodor Adorno
• There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. — George Carlin
• The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult… — H. Bentley Glass
• [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values but neither must… — Ronald Reagan
• Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession of… — Guillaume Faye
• The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could… — Gaston Bachelard
• A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a… — Walter Wriston
• The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the… — Marshall McLuhan
• The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was… — Ray Dalio
• Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly European… — James Hansen
• The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. — C.S. Lewis
• I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the… — G. Willow Wilson
• There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. — Sinead O'Connor
• I'm not an historian but I can get interested-obsessively interested-with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. — Penelope Lively
• I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the… — Zack Snyder
• Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural? — Newt Gingrich
• When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new. — Chris O'Dowd
• At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion… — Terry Pratchett
• I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE. — Terry Pratchett
• I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen… — Mira Grant

Who Wrote These Recent Past Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 24 Recent Past Quotes as follows:

• 2 Recent Past Quotes by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Recent Past Quote by George Carlin
• 1 Recent Past Quote by H. Bentley Glass
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Ronald Reagan
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Guillaume Faye
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Gaston Bachelard
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Walter Wriston
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Marshall McLuhan
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Ray Dalio
• 1 Recent Past Quote by James Hansen
• 1 Recent Past Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Recent Past Quote by G. Willow Wilson
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Sinead O'Connor
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Penelope Lively
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Zack Snyder
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Newt Gingrich
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Chris O'Dowd
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Mira Grant
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Alan Bennett
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Hilton Kramer
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Lucy Powell
• 1 Recent Past Quote by Theodor Adorno