Quotes About Past

Guys, never ask a woman how many men she slept with, cause you don't wanna know. Just be happy you're fucking her now.

A young couple leaving the O'Farrell Theater caught his eye, making him feel a warm, gentle nostalgia for his lover's lane phase.

Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire's own heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they'd learned, what they'd seen, what they'd felt. Wasn't that magic?

Nella nostra società individualista, e quindi lacerata e incoerente, abbiamo dimenticato il passato e non attribuiamo importanza se non all'effimero. Per questo corriamo verso la catastrofe, e le nuove tecnologie, contrariamente all'opinione diffusa, non ci salveranno affatto. La religione è l'oppio dei popoli, Internet è la sua eroina.

Nur wer vor 1789 gelebt hat, weiss, wie angenehm das Leben sein kann

Knowing he couldn't go back to

Forgive me if I'm wrong. But are you-were you-did you come here on a train from New York about ten years ago?

And even if she loses the charms, she thinks, they'll always be a part of her. The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin. People get tattoos to have a permanent reminder of things they love or believe or fear, but though she'll never regret the turtle, she has no need to ink her flesh again to remember the past. She had not known the markings would be etched so deep.

It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.

He did get one thing right: Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison, that house on the hill has always been my home. I've spent my life yearning toward it, wanting to escape it, paralyzed by its hold on me. (There are many ways to be crippled, I've learned over the years, many forms of paralysis.) My ancestors fled to Maine from Salem, but like anyone who tries to run away from the past, they brought it with them.

Vivian said she wanted to clean out her attic. But I think what she really wanted was to see what was in those boxes one last time. And remember those parts of her life.

Las cosas que importan se quedan contigo, se filtran en tu piel. La gente se hace tatuajes para tener un recordatorio permanente de las cosas que aman o de aquellas en que creen o a las que temen, pero aunque nunca lamentará la tortuga, no tiene necesidad de poner tinta en su cuerpo otra vez para recordar el pasado.

Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us hold the die uncast, Free to come as free to go: For I cannot know your past, And of mine what can you know?

Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. ("The Key-Note")

Une institution présente ne peut être expliquée par le simple fait qu'elle a existé dans le passé, même si ce passé est récent. Je ne nie pas que certains éléments du patriarcat d'aujourd'hui ressemblent à des éléments du « patriarcat » d'il y a cent ans : simplement cette durée - si tant est qu'il y ait durée, c'est-à-dire qu'il s'agisse bien de la même chose - ne constitue pas en elle-même un facteur explicatif. (p. 18)

the Brotherhood was not a throwback to the past but a reflection of its modern rivals, with attributes that would allow it to take on such ideologies and defeat them.

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.

We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.

JENNET: They also say that I bring back the past; For instance Helen comes Brushing the maggots from her eyes, And, clearing here throat of the dust of several thousand years She says "I loved ..."; but cannot any longer Remember names. Sad Helen. Or Alexander, wearing His imperial cobwebs and breastplate of shining worms Wakens and looks for his glasses, to find the empire Which he knows he put beside his bed.

Er hoffte also in paradoxaler Weise, nämlich auf die Vergangenheit gerichtet statt auf die Zukunft. Und das tun wir, nebenbei bemerkt, meistens.

You have to choose between the past and the present, and there really is no choice, Faye, it's a no-brainer. You can't live in both, and if you don't choose between the past and the present, then one day that choice may be made for you, and you may not like the way it goes.

We keep stuff in order to hang on to what's important, but it's an illusion ... These objects are not bridges to the past, they're bridges to memories of the past. But they are not the past.

those who had been obliged to be silent for nearly forty years were once again being told that there could be no public recognition of their past lives or memories.

historical memory law of 2007