Past Quotes - Page 16

• What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

  Matthew Collings

  Today, Serious, Painting

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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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• Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.

  Robert Warren

  Art, Technique, Evolution

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• Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

  Aleatha Romig

  Childhood, Changed, Remembered

  Aleatha Romig (2011). “Consequences”, p.104, Romig Works LLC

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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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• 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 wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

  Georg Solti

  Get Away, Wanted, Connected

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• Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  New York, Struggle, Home

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• I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

  Lucinda Riley

  Littles, Filling, Stage

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• In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

  Mika

  Gay, Role Models, Roles

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

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• You couldn’t get rid of the past. You couldn’t ignore it, or bury it, or throw it over the balcony. You just had to learn to live beside it. It had to peacefully co exist with your present. If I could figure out how to do that, I could be okay.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Figures, Balconies, Okay

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• Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Years, Experts, Three

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• If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

  Alan Watts

  Games, Matter, Facts

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science, which it certainly isn't today. The possible insights into our own past and nature and origins would be dazzling. For another, we would be facing the deep paradoxes of interfering with the scheme of causality that has led to our own time and ourselves. I have no idea whether it's possible, but it's certainly worth exploring.

  Carl Sagan

  Ideas, Mind, Would Be

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Cousin, Uncles, Animal

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• Mankind in Amnesia has to do not only with the past, like my other books -- primarily it has to do with the future, a future not removed by thousands or tens of thousands of years, but the imminent future, on whose threshold we now stand.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Book, Years, Threshold

  Immanuel Velikovsky (2010). “Mankind in Amnesia”, p.11, Paradigma Ltd

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• Although I will deeply miss the talented team at SCEA and the passion demonstrated every day by our fans, I'm very excited about starting the next chapter of my career. I want to thank the employees, partners, and customers for their tireless commitment to the PlayStation brand and, of course, to our fans who have pushed us to new heights of innovation and entertainment over the past two decades. I leave PlayStation in a position of considerable strength and the future will only get brighter for PlayStation Nation.

  Jack Tretton

  Team, Passion, Commitment

  "Jack Tretton To Step Down As President And CEO Of Sony Computer Entertainment America". Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., www.prnewswire.com. March 06, 2014.

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• Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Soul, Done, Care

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.3, 1909.

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• A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Names, Giving

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Lecture by Peter Kropotkin, translated by Harry Lyman Koopman, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1898.

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• Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

  George Eliot

  Daylight, Rubbish, Would Be

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.186

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• So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Morning, Memories

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.157, Wordsworth Editions

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• Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Prayer, Lying, Saint

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• T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Might, States, Courses

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.698, Delphi Classics

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• Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

  Publilius Syrus

  Happiness, Past Happiness, Wretchedness

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