Quotes About Past

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

As much as I love elements of Spider-Man's past, I don't really want to go back in and retell the Gwen Stacy and Green Goblin story in animation just so I can do my take on it. I don't want to redo the first 'Spider Slayer' story.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.

You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

I'm an extinct volcano.

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

I've fallen in love with my horse. It's a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs.

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

Richard's ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn't enjoy that last cigarette.

The cosmos seems oblivious to time. It only matters to us. Consciousness is time-constituting. We build time up out of instantaneous impressions that flow in through our sensory organs at each moment. Then they recede into the past. What is this thing we call the past? It is a system of records encoded in our nerve tissue—records that tell a consistent story.

One sort of glib explanation I heard once was that Rhetors could change the past, and were glad to do it, but Incanters could change the future—and were reluctant.

And I mouth into the phone, I love you , in case some of her cells pick up on the vibrations and it serves me well in the next life. If there is one. If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable.