Quotes About Past

Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22

Je moet niet verdrietig worden van het verleden. Of moedeloos van de toekomst. Je moet je concentreren op het heden. Als dat goed zit, komt de toekomst vanzelf.

Kenangan adalah fosil, tidak akan bisa menjadi abu, malah memiliki kekuatan untuk mendikte jarum-jarum jam agar berputar ke kiri.

you will remember ]for we in our youth did these things yes many and beautiful things ] ] ]

Sometimes the past comes up on us like a ghost. Sometimes life is like a haunted house. But there's no way to leave. You just have to make your peace with the ghosts.

I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.

Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

You have no future when the past rules you.

I've always viewed history as my personal treasure chest.

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

None of them were recent, but that was the nature of family stories. They had to be far enough in the past that they took on a mythic quality.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.