Past Quotes - Page 22

• Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

  Christopher Dawson

  Faith, Promise, Reason

  "Progress and Religion". Book by Christopher Dawson, Ch. X, 1929.

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• True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.

  James McCosh

  Christian, Humility, Views

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Dictionary by Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 329, 1895.

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• For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.

  Iain Sinclair

  Running, Book, Eye

  Iain Sinclair (2007). “London: City of Disappearances”, Penguin Global

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• The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Mind, Weakness, Elements

  Wyndham Lewis (1914). “Blast”, Kraus Reprint Corp.

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• I've had a lot of people in my past who were friends with me just to get publicity. When I was young, my mom or sister used to have to point out if someone was using me to make a name for themselves – you know, linking arms with me on the red carpet and trying to get in every picture. But now I can see for myself when someone is just hungry for attention.

  Paris Hilton

  Mom, Names, People

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• In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past.

  Mitt Romney

  Party, Moving, Years

  "Romney Reaches to the Christian Right" by Perry Bacon, Jr., www.washingtonpost.com. May 6, 2007.

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• Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Games, Goal, Different

  "Zizou Is the Boss Now, Says Vieira" by Joe Melling, www.espnfc.com. July 02, 2000.

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• Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Player, Years, Zidane

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• Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Player, Years, Zidane

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• To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free

  Christina Aguilera

  Goodbye, Children, Reflection

  Song: Lotus Intro, Album: Lotus, 2012

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• The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Jobs, Powerful, Reality

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• Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

  Gordon Brown

  Government, Return, Britain

  Pre-Budget Report, November 9, 1999.

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• The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

  Vince Cable

  House, Transformation, Week

  Vincent Cable during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 28, 2007.

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• Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?

  Harry Chapin

  Country, Prayer, Passion

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.

  Harry Chapin

  Real, Mind, Worried

  Song: I Wonder What Happened to Him, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Giving, Locks, Looks

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.38, Random House

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• The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Tomorrow

  Samuel R. Delany (1968). “Nova”

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• In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.

  Anthony Daniels

  Memories, Views, Years

  "Selective Memory". www.city-journal.org. July 6, 2004.

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• My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

  Jennifer Ashley

  Secret, Politician, Assets

  Jennifer Ashley (2012). “The Duke's Perfect Wife”, p.19, Penguin

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• More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.

  Ronald Fisher

  Mean, Ideas, Track

  "Natural selection from the genetical standpoint". "Australian Journal of Earth Sciences" Peer-reviewed journal, 1959.

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• The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.

  Alex Garland

  Book, Divorce, Ideas

  "Beach nut". Interview with Sue Wheat, www.salon.com. February 11, 2000.

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• The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

  Benjamin Graham

  Gold, Commodity, Intrinsic Value

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham.Part III, Chapter X, The Status of Gold and Silver, p. 127, 1937.

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• All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.

  Benjamin Graham

  Real, Mean, Long

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 17, 1949.

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• The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.

  Benjamin Graham

  Light, Years, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

  Bill Keller

  Jobs, Powerful, Long

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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