Quotes About Past

Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

Leto did not respond. His thoughts were lost in memories of night—the one just past and the millennial others which crowded his pasts—clouds and stars, the rains and the open blackness pocked with glittering flakes from a shredded cosmos, a universe of nights, extravagant with them as he had been with his heartbeats.

famed intelligence had become a kind of shrewdness, relying mostly on past observations and past decisions rather than on what she saw in the immediate present.

What you share in such companionship always prepares you for greater things. The haze of nostalgia covers their days among their sisters, making those days into something different than they were. That's the way today changes history. All contemporaries do not inhabit the same time. The past is always changing, but few realize it.

Awareness flowed into that timeless stratum where he could view time, sensing the available paths, the winds of the future…the winds of the past: the one-eyed vision of the past, the one-eyed vision of the present and the one-eyed vision of the future—all combined in a trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space.

I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

It was finite, of course, a brief spasm when measured against eternity, but beyond lay horrors to overshadow anything in the past.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.

Povjesni?ari imaju veliku mo?, a neki od njih to i znaju. Oni ponovno stvaraju prošlost, mijenjaju?i je kako bi odgovarala njihovim vlastitim tuma?enjima. Pa tako mijenjaju i budu?nost.

Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time?

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...

A man might find for a moment that he was unable to work, but that's exactly the right time to remember his past accomplishments and to consider that later on, when the obstacles has been removed, he's bound to work all the harder and more efficiently.

But that is past and should remain deep in the past

Pe cine nu mai cheam?, pe acela îl uit? cu des?vârÈ™ire. N-am vrut s? vorbesc despre asta de fa?? cu Frieda. Dar nu e numai uitare, e mai mult decât atât. C?ci pe cine ai uitat, poÈ›i s?-l cunoÈ™ti din nou. În cazul lui Klamm asta nu e posibil. Pe cine nu mai cheam?, pe acela l-a uitat complet, nu numai pentru trecut, dar, ca s? zic aÈ™a, È™i pentru viitor.

Oh well, memories, said I. Yes, even remembering in itself is sad, yet how much more its object! Don't let yourself in for things like that, it's not for you and not for me. It only weakens one's present position without strengthening the former one — nothing is more obvious — quite apart from the fact that the former one doesn't need strengthening. Do you think I have no memories? Oh, ten for every one of yours.

Obviously, in my past, I had a quite wild relationship with Pamela Anderson.

LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

I sometimes fee like the spirit of the past resurrected... After all, didn't cultural studies emerge somewhere at that moment when I first met Raymond Williams or in the glance I exchanged with Richard Hoggart? In that moment, cultural studies was born. It emerged full grown from my head!

Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.

There's a Dar Williams song about 'houses that are haunted, with the kids who lie awake and think about other generations past who used to use that dripping sink.' I was one of those kids.