Past Quotes - Page 29

• Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Novel, Our Past, Revising

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• In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

  Colleen Atwood

  Hero, Design, Style

  " First Photos of Supergirl Revealed" by Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. March 06, 2015.

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• For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

  Ernest Mandel

  New Experiences, Facts, Socialism

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• The past several months have brought on much introspection, and I have decided that while my desire to compete on Sundays is still and always will be there, my willingness to commit to the preparation necessary to play another season has waned to a level that I feel is no longer adequate to meet the demands of the position.

  Kerry Collins

  Sunday, Play, Preparation

  "Kerry Collins Has Retired From The NFL After 16 Seasons". www.businessinsider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.

  Epeli Hau'ofa

  Memories, Eye, Mind

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• Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

  M. L. Stedman

  Years, White, Feelings

  M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Today, Shapes, Tomorrow

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• If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.

  Ken Dychtwald

  Fashion, Pain, Yoga

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• C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry.
  The song goes straight to the heart while the numbers
  and the math of it will never be able to reach that.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Powerful, Heart

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• French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris

  Peter Turnley

  Beautiful, Photography, Believe

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• To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.

  Eben Alexander

  Thinking, Self, Brain

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• If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

  Craig Shirley

  Trials, Ifs

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• Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society.

  Chris Lehane

  Powerful, Father, Intelligent

  "Romney's new foe: Batman's 'Bane'". www.washingtonexaminer.com. July 16, 2012.

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• I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

  Bill Gaither

  Real, Heart, Artist

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• History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Example, Action, Witness

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• How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.

  Washington Irving

  Character, Thinking, Names

  Washington Irving (2012). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

  Tryon Edwards

  Regret, Apology, World

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.240

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• Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mind, Endurance, Unbearable

  Marcus Aurelius (1997). “Meditations”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

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• Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Dream, Two, Steps

  Song: Getaway Machine

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• Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.

  Mark Oliver

  Crush, Struggle, Thinking

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• Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, 'Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Baby, Doctors, Wife

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• The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.

  Conan O'Brien

  White, Jumping, Years

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.  Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.  You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

  Guy Finley

  Moving, Reality, Wind

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• I am driven to keep going for Christ by the filling of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that the harvest is not forever. It will soon be past.

  Bill Bright

  Forever, Spirit, Christ

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• Your past is not your potential.

  Harvey Mackay

  Full Potential, Human Potential, Your Past

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from May 29, 2012

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