Past Quotes - Page 37

• I think a proud Southerner is a Southerner who is aware of his or her past, and being proud of one's past does not mean you accept it. It means that you realize that we've come through the fire, and we're headed in another direction.

  William R. Ferris

  Mean, Thinking, Fire

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

  Russell D. Moore

  Thinking, Remember, Ought

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.

  Huineng

  Teaching, Essence, Found

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• A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."

  Kevin Spacey

  Couple, Keys, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

  Sylvia Earle

  Earth, Deeper, Distillation

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• I passed by the brothel as though
  past the house of a beloved.

  Franz Kafka

  House, Beloved, Brothels

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.

  Ian Fleming

  Doctors, People, Pieces

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• There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

  Mike Tyson

  Doors, Want, Return

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• I can't do anything with what's happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.

  Tom Brady

  Team, Trying, Awareness

  Tom Brady Press Conference at Gillette Stadium, www.courant.com. January 22, 2015.

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• I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Dark, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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• If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. . . . Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . . In cases of marriage and family, . . . we can end up destroying so many others.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Mistake, Dwelling

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• But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

  Stephen Harper

  People, Matter, Conservative

  Stephen Harper's Speech to a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 15, 2005.

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• To live in the past is to die in the present.

  Bill Belichick

  Dies

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• Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

  Pierre Bourgault

  Names, Principles, Violence

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• Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Transition, Moments, States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.126, Penguin

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• Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us.
  Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is the only answer.
  Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again.
  Love heals, forgives, and makes whole.

  Ernest Holmes

  Letting Go, Love Is, Forgiving

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• Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.

  Jan Hunt

  Meaningful, Hurt, Children

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.4, New Society Publishers

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• People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Hands, People

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Broken, Get Over

  Twitter post from May 30, 2015

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• The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect Kristiana Kahakauwila's intimate but expansive vision of a Hawai'i forged from the collisions of past and present, here and there. Her protagonists are as richly distinctive as the pidgin they speak, and yet each struggles profoundly with identity-that negotiation between ourselves and the world, which is at once Hawaiian, American, universally and compellingly human.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Struggle, Vision, Identity

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• Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

  Pam Dawber

  People, Worry, Understanding

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• A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

  Tobsha Learner

  Men, Blind, Deny

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• It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fate, Destiny, Littles

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc”, p.89

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• The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

  Story Musgrave

  Way, Remember, Hope For The Future

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Color, Weather, Mind

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