Past Quotes - Page 15

• The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Endure, Within You

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.121, Penguin

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• So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,— The after-echo of departed years,— And touches all the soul to tears.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Memories, Heart, Echoes

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The present is burthened too much with the past.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Too Much

  1856 Entry for 27 Mar at the British Museum, collected in The English Notebooks (1870).

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• The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.

  Alfred de Musset

  Curiosity, World, Renaissance

  "Confession d'un Enfant du Siécle". Book by Alfred de Musset, 1836.

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• What can you say about a guy who lets himself be saddled with a baby when he's thirty-five and losing his hair? Love? Forget about that till you're past seventy, and by then the parts will have stopped working anyway.

  Gunter Grass

  Baby, Hair, Guy

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• The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Home, Play

  Arthur Miller (1992). “The Crucible”, p.13, Heinemann

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• The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Russia, Escaping, Years

  1991 Addressing socialist MPs in Strasbourg, 15 Apr.

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• There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Magic Moments, People

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.

  Jim Carrey

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Devin Faracii, www.chud.com. December 20, 2005.

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• The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Wisdom, Judgment

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• I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Warrior, Men, Giving

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Class, Age, Degrees

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The Age of Reform”, p.62, Vintage

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• I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.

  Boris Yeltsin

  People, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  2000 On his retirement. In the Observer, 2 Jan.

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• The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system.

  Edwin Land

  Successful, Numbers, Roles

  Edwin Herbert Land (1957). “Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science”

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• I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.

  Roger Angell

  Couple, Pain, Feelings

  "This Old Man" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. February 17 & 24, 2014.

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• I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I like what I've been doing. I believe in what I've done in the past; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future.

  Adam Sandler

  Believe, Kids, Done

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I don't have a preference for bad people, no. I have an interest in playing a broad range of characters. Obviously, I'm mostly identified with a character who is very responsible, very solid and very intelligent, but there are plenty of questionable characters in my past career. I'm interested in exploring theatricality and characters with some dimension.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Character, Intelligent, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dream, Believe, Kids

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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• Don't be afraid and don't let the past affect your present.

  Lori Petty

  Source: collider.com

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• No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

  Daniel Levitin

  Winning, Champion, Alive

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• And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessed, Expectations, Joy

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now.

  Danny Masterson

  Thinking, Living Right, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Pain, Moving, Loss

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• That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Sex, Moving, Disappear

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• In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

  Pete Wentz

  Father, Brain, Attention

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