Quotes About Past And Present

#1. I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

Lou Reed

#2. A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.

W.G. Sebald

#4. My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

Barbara Hepworth

#5. Past and present commingle:
Eternity in the single blink of an eye!

Lu Chi

#6. If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

Simon Conway Morris

#7. I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#8. Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.

J.I. Packer

#9. Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

Varley O'Connor

#10. Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.

Salman Rushdie

#11. My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.

Emily Murdoch

#12. In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

Frank Church

#13. I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

Bill Condon

#14. Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

Henry Moore

#15. Don't be afraid to let your past and present come together to create something new

Michelle D. Argyle

#16. I've always thought that old clothes are a lot like old houses; they bring the past and present together.

Karen White

#17. Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

Chuck Grassley

#18. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing that can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski, Spooner, and Calico. Pure love. What I feel for my cats past and present.

William S. Burroughs

#19. What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.

Emory Douglas

#20. Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Sidney Hook

#21. I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know I'm vulnerable too and each one of us is.

Tim Gunn

#22. Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They are made of toxic emotions such fear, guilt, blame, hatred, obligation, grasping need or pain.

Avril Carruthers

#23. I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future

Ludwig Feuerbach

#24. Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Hugh Evans

#25. To my clients, past and present, because I admire their courage, honesty, hope, and hard work".

Linda N. Edelstein

#26. Our choice, it seems, is whether we will let our past and present sufferings be sufficient to soften and break us, or whether we will resist and harden ourselves so even more suffering is required.

Brian D. McLaren

#27. I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are ... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility.

Jay Neugeboren

#28. He is conscious of the past and present injustices, but he knows that real remedies are to be found in contemporary Christian compassion, and not in compensatory justice.

Neal A. Maxwell

#29. The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of.

Iris Murdoch

#30. In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

Gottfried Leibniz

#31. I like to compare my mental stress capacity to a dinner plate. Most people have moderate amounts of stress in their life, like a nice balanced meal. The food represents different stresses that occur in our lives, past and present.

L.K. Elliott

#32. Someone - a Latin poet - had defined eternity as no more than this: to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, there and then, past and present and to come.

Winston Graham

#33. I can feel the love I'm a part of surrounding me and flowing through me; I'm near home and I'm standing hand in hand with those I love, past and present, in the sun, on the outskirts of something that feels almost like... being free.

Bruce Springsteen

#34. My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.

Bella Hadid

#35. There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

Joanna Scott

#36. The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.

Glenda Jackson

#37. The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens to resist adapting to the American way of life.

Michelle Malkin

#38. How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it.

Christmas Humphreys

#39. Walter Elias Disney is the name on this Window, although it is actually a tribute to all Disneyland Resort Cast Members, past and present.

Jeff Heimbuch

#40. The past could never be hidden [we must embrace] it with new hope and new dreams so that both past and present form one unified trunk that continues to shelter our people

Judy Croome

#41. Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.

John Dewey

#42. Once a man's will is set, he need no longer rely on others or expect anything from the world. His vision encompasses Heaven and earth, past and present, and the tranquility of his heart is undisturbed.

Yoshida Shoin

#43. Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

Kurt Vonnegut

#44. The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#45. Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

Vladimir Nabokov

#46. I'm just like a dot separating two sentences swinging between the past and present of my life

Manu

#47. Only thing that can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski, Spooner, and Calico. Pure love. What I feel for my cats past and present.

Love? What is it?
Most natural painkiller what there is.
LOVE.

William S. Burroughs

#48. Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#49. The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#50. Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand ... Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.

Marcus Aurelius

#51. Your past and present will determine your future

Thabiso Monkoe

#52. The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Blaise Pascal

#53. Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way you can build its future.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#54. The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

Anthony Minghella

#55. We, who pay dearly for every breath of pure, fresh air, must guard against the tendency to fetter the future. If we succeed in clearing the soil from the rubbish of the past and present, we will leave to posterity the greatest and safest heritage of all ages.

Emma Goldman

#56. If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Winston S. Churchill

#57. Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.

Chaim Weizmann

#58. The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

Jose Parla

#59. Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

Paule Marshall

#60. The norns are goddesses of fate, of love and hate; they are weaving on the loom of destiny. All the lives of people and gods, past and present, are woven on their loom. Your thread of life was long ago spun and placed in their great image.

John Snow

#61. It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations
past and present
are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

Eric Hoffer

#62. You're the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing when I go to sleep. You're my sun and moon and stars, my past and present-and I hope you'll be my future.

A.G. Henley

#63. Spread me like a sheet of paper. Write your life on mine. Fold past and present together like a letter. I am yours.

C.D. Reiss

#64. Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

Holbrook Jackson

#65. I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#66. To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task.

Gayle Pemberton

#67. Any one episode, or even moment, in a person's life is so complex, with so many layers of past and present, desire and indifference, drift and drive, consciousness and unconsciousness, that language is the best means we've found of approaching that kind of complexity.

Ben Fountain

#68. Be thankful for everybody in your life, good and bad, past and present. They all made you the person that you're today.

Unknown

#69. The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.

Peg O'Connor

#70. Suddenly a feeling swam over her with a mighty strength. The feeling was both overwhelming and peaceful, linking her to some cosmic and eternal force as the earth around her became more vibrant and alive. It was as if heaven and earth, past and present, were all one in an instant.

Mike Ericksen

#71. Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

David Mitchell

#72. There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.

Joseph Bruchac

#73. You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

Allen Ginsberg

#74. Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination
a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

Walt Disney

#75. Here is the judgment toward which every person outside [of] Christ is headed. The date has already been set by God. All men of all races and nationalities, both past and present, will be there. You may make and break appointments in this life - but this is one appointment you will keep.

Billy Graham

#76. The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

Blaise Pascal

#77. Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.

Mark Van Doren

#78. The board reveals all: Upon its acetate is writ the story of past and present. Who

David Simon

#79. I don't know how to save the world. I don't have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive - nor will we deserve to.

Leonard Peltier

#80. Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#81. There is nothing God doesn't know about your life. You may know the past and present, but God also knows the future. Choose today to walk securely - not in what you know, but in what you believe.

David Jeremiah

#82. Whether it be current or past, every single song that I recorded is about me. It's a peek into my life, past and present. Maybe it's coming from my theater and performance background, but nothing felt right unless I could relate to it.

Lea Michele

#83. Confident and timid; angelic with the tongue of the devil; fierce and fragile - a woman who made him feel unworthy of her affection. She was his past and present - his heaven and hell.
Dark, Dannika (2014-07-27). Five Weeks (Seven Series #3) (p. 89). Kindle Edition.

Dannika Dark

#84. We are what we are forever, unchanging - you are everything all at once, past and present and future all rioting together. I pity you terribly, I could never bear to be like you, but I wonder and wonder about you.

Peter S. Beagle

#85. Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

Damon Galgut

#86. It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Jay Samit

#87. If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

Nadine Gordimer

#88. They say you can't escape your past, but I don't believe that. I believe you escape it every day, over and over again, always cognizant of the difference between past and present

Susan Richards

#89. [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

August Strindberg

#90. Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

Courteney Cox

#91. Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

Giuseppe Verdi

#92. I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once.

Mary Lasswell

#93. All the people who'd brought me here, past and present, ancient and young, legend and life and lore, I channeled. I welcomed them into my infinite heart, alongside the ghosts, the shadows, the ache I'd always carry. I made their strength mine, a part of me. My inspiration. My voice.

Sarah Ockler

#94. We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

Winona LaDuke

#95. And I start to feel once more that the lines that have boxed in my life - between past and present, outside and in - are dissolving. That I may yet myself be delivered.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#96. Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

Julian Assange

#97. The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

Wallace D. Wattles

#98. We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

Graham Nash

#99. Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

Fergie

#100. Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

Marianne Williamson