Quotes About Past

Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I'll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

We resurrect 'Mezzanine' with a promise that we can break free from the data of the past and escape the feedback loops.

In some ways, writing a novel, especially a novel set in the past and about characters who once lived, is about amassing enough details and arranging them properly in order to offer the reader a verisimilitude that satisfies his or her curiosity about the story at hand.

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the book.

I want to make it very clear, if confirmed as DNI, every whistleblower - past, present and future - will enjoy every protection under the law.

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.

or else I would have sung a song in response to what the male sex sings. For our lengthy past has much to say about men's lives as well as ours

Do not revive a grief I had forgotten.

I didn't hear you come in. I was away with the ghosts of my beautiful youth.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

If you live with a man you come to know the other woman he has loved.

Have you told Julia this about Sebastian?" "The substance of it; not quite as I told you. She never loved him, you know, as we do." " Do. " The word reproached me; there was no past tense in Cordelia's verb "to love.

These memories, which are my life -- for we possess nothing certainly except the past -- were always with me.

her youth passed in renaissance glory

Man kan inte återskapa sitt förflutna (s. 117).

I wouldn't ask too much of her, I ventured. You can't repeat the past. Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can!

The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into the summer dusk down in the busy city for young Hildegarde whom he loved; the days before that when he sat smoking far into the night in the gloomy old Button house on Monroe Street with his grandfather-all these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

Unlike lovers they possessed no past; unlike man and wife, they possessed no future; yet up to in this morning Nicole had liked Abe better than anyone except Dick--and he had been heavy, belly-frightened, with love for her for years.