Quotes About Someone From The Past

#1. When you located someone from the past online, it was like finding that person trapped behind glass in the permanent collection of a museum. You knew they were still there, and it seemed to you as if they would stay there forever.

Meg Wolitzer

#2. I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

Morris Gleitzman

#3. It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

Yoshida Kenko

#4. 'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.

John Ortberg

#5. You got someone else courting you?"
"No." The fork she'd been scrubbing slid from her hand, returning to the murky depths. "But then, I wasn't sure I had you courting me, either. I seem to recall you expressing a number of objections to my suitability in the past.

Karen Witemeyer

#6. My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

Hideo Kojima

#7. In the past seven years, I've gone from being a nobody with no job and no insurance to someone who is seen as a leader and a role model.

Anonymous

#8. The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

Tullian Tchividjian

#9. When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother...When your mother's gone, you've lost your past. It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn't know how much until she was gone.

Anna Quindlen

#10. The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.

Rupert Grint

#12. I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

Malala Yousafzai

#13. I hate that crossing paths with someone from my past can throw me back to the darkness and sadness that may always be a part of me.

Jessica Sorensen

#14. We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.

W. Edwards Deming

#15. Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.

Stephen Richards

#16. As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

Ahmed Zewail

#17. Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#19. By helping others come unto Him, you will find that you have come unto Him yourself

Henry B. Eyring

#20. I wasn't so interested in merchandising through CD or whatever form. I wasn't really so aggressive about promoting my own work. I had my recordings from the past, but I never thought someone was interested in releasing it.

Yoshi Wada

#21. The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

Chris Matthews

#22. To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.

Frederick Lenz

#23. So often I speak of "out of the box thinking" and living a "conscious life"; however, not regularly do I meet someone who lives such a life. What an inspiration (and challenge) to see someone who really lives in the now, who looks forward and dares to stop when thoughts turn to pain from the past!

Paula Heller Garland

#24. Love can be so hauntingly beautiful, waking up past selves that have been wandering aimlessly through the corridors of our soul, for far too long. When someone else can take us from the ghost-town of our inner-selves, to exciting new landscapes, it's worth the risk, just to feel reborn.

Jaeda DeWalt

#25. I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.

Dita Von Teese

#26. There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

Florence Nightingale

#27. It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

Jodi Picoult

#28. If someone chooses not to forgive others, they are actually hurting themselves. The only way to free yourself from that is to forgive others so you can be free from your past.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#29. It made him feel like less of a man. And given how much less of a man he'd felt the past several weeks, that was really saying something. He was surprised someone from the Man Club hadn't come by to revoke his dick and balls.

Heidi Betts

#30. I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.

Andy Dick

#31. Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they have never moved from.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. You NEED to look back to remember the awesome memories, to remember the positive lessons you have learned, to help someone else learn from what you have lived and to see how far you have come.

Tanya Masse

#33. Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations.

Norhafsah Hamid

#34. Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

L. Todd Rose

#35. The past is never a mistake if you have learnt from it. I have learnt never to trust someone so much that it hurts your expectations.

Sudeep Nagarkar

#36. Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.

Patton Oswalt

#37. In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone.

Rachel Thompson

#38. And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from the past, you open it. Mandelstam says, "It's okay to do so. I'm not reading someone else's mail. It was addressed to whoever found it. I found it, therefore it's addressed to me."

Edward Hirsch