P Quotes
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“Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.”
“Passò per vie rumorose piene di luce, per gallerie dalla risonanza profonda, su cui, con rumore di tuono, rotolavano pesantemente i treni e che eran tutte tappezzate di annunzi reclamistici dai colori vistosi, vide splendidi palazzi, e case a quattro piani, strette, con finestre polverose che ammiccavan sulla via sporca; risalì file di strade che si somigliavano come orfanelle o ciechi, condotti in fila.
Infine si svegliò lentamente alla realtà, e si sentì vecchia, triste e stanca, per aver vegliato e corso.
Miserabili bottegucce si schiacciavano l'un l'altra per mettersi in evidenza: abiti vecchi per i più poveri, biancheria grigia per gli operai, e per tutti viveri a buon mercato. Ceste di pere, dure e verdi, e di prugne, nere e secche, aspettavano di sedurre una clientela infantile, coperte da una rete a maglie strette che le salvava dai ladruncoli. In una botteguccia vide una donna obesa, che con le mani tremanti, secche e gialle, accendeva una lampada a petrolio. Ai suoi piedi un ragazzino la guardava con curiosità, con una carota, mezzo rosicchiata, nella sua mano di bambino sporco.
Le strade, i cumuli di mercanzie, le camicie grigie, le pere, la rete, i visi stanchi delle persone, tutto era annerito dalla fuliggine grassa delle locomotive che passavano, brontolando, e dal fumo di tutti i camini degli stabilimenti che erano là, stretti gli uni vicino agli altri, come alberi di una foresta.
“Ecco il tuo giorno di festa” pensava Franzi.
Ella era ferita e inasprita fino al pianto, come se tutto: la strada grigia, la bruttezza della miseria, la tristezza della povertà, fossero state accumulate in quest'angolo di città straniera per disprezzarla.
“Ecco il tuo giorno di festa” diceva in lei una voce chiara. E questa creatura che detestava sognare, che non comprendeva la morte, che non si attaccava che alla realtà, che non voleva conquistare e non desiderava che ciò che si può afferrare, ciò che è vibrante di vita: questa creatura si svegliava qui, nella grigia strada di un quartiere popolare di Praga, Zizkov, che nel crepuscolo confuso di una sera di primavera si prolungava a perdita d'occhio.
“Ecco il tuo giorno di festa” pensava Franzi.
Ella sentiva che non era solo questo giorno che la condannava, ma la troppo lunga fila di giorni di lavoro, fra cui essa aveva il suo posto: ancora grigio su grigio, come un orfanello in una lunga fila, come un seguito di ore vuote in un mondo vuoto. Vuoto? Non stava più la sua vita sulle ali della musica, la più umana di tutte le arti? Perchè dunque il suo passato restava così freddo, così paurosamente squallido, senza un sorriso, senza un ricordo, senza altro che tante pagine voltate, in un gran quaderno di musica? Aveva sempre suonato per se stessa e per la propria soddisfazione. A finestre e porte chiuse si era ubriacata di musica come di un vizio segreto.
Che significato aveva per lei? Tanto? Ancora ieri ella vi aveva trovato consolazione, speranza, entusiasmo e pace, terra e cielo, letizia e dolore. Oggi tutto era lontano. Nessuno mai l'aveva ascoltata; mai nessuna delle sue parole si era riflessa nel sorriso di un'altra creatura; mai nessuno era stato dietro a lei e le aveva passato la mano sulla spalla all'ultimo accordo del pianoforte...”
Source: Franziska
“Past a certain age, they give up on the name games, which is regrettable for someone like me who loves anything that involves going around a circle and saying something about yourself. I wish there was a class where we could just keep going around the circle, around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Past all shame, so past all truth.”
“Past and all its baggage,
future and all its worries,
it is the present we should breathe,
for all the rest are just stories.”
Source: Life is a Remembrance
“Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.”
“Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.”
“Past and future are myths: stories in the mind.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.”
“Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.”
“Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.”
“Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.”
Source: Anthology of Black Humor
“Past and pleasures are leaves of murm'ring that fall one over other, if nothing vernal to stand with or keep the load of despondency; but fulfill not whatever careers birth gave; yet seek or find.”
Source: Halcyon Wings: 'These passions feathers are gathering on a winged vision'
“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.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“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.”
Source: The Anatomy of Bibliomania
“Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
“Past art is subject to change.”
“Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.”
Source: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
“Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.”
“Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.”
“Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.”
“Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.”
“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written record and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.”
Source: 1984
“Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.”
“Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.”
“Past experiences are not always an ideal or good reflection of the present or the future.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Past experiences with people can damage the mind, reshape attitudes, and change a person entirely. Yet the wisdom is in learning the right lessons, not becoming bitter, and still allowing others a fair chance.”
“Past failures unlock future successes”
“Past fifty, we learn with surprise and a sense
of suicidal absolution
that what we intended and failed
could never have happened—
and must be done better.”
“Past & future are imaginary containers of thoughts in consciousness of the present moment.”
“Past generations made mistakes when they thought they were in the right. It makes me wonder what this generation is doing wrong.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“Past glories are poor feeding.”
Source: Foundation Trilogy
“Past happiness augments present wretchedness.”
“Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!”
“Past homes that lie sleeping in streets
beneath the scent of flowers and of salt
a journey set down in complicated paths
until the stones run clear into the ocean
the rising light reaching down
into the depths of that water
then reflecting and resting
on this small world, full of beauty
on you, full of beauty”
Source: Mystical Tides
“Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.”
Source: The Complete Novels
“Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.”
“Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way!”
“Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.”
“Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.”
“Past is just a memory.
Future is just an imagination.
Only present is the reality.”
“past is like a histroy book were we can learn what weve done in it.”
“Past is like a poison – it kills you, slowly, but it definitely does.”
Source: Ice Town
“Past is nothing but the crumbs of a dream remained in our memory! And the future is just another short dream which is likely to happen!”
“Past is past for a reason, it belongs behind. You may care for it, you may learn from it, but you must never live in it.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Past is Prologue
This book was written observing the premise that the seeds of Holocaust denial take root and prosper with misinformation. Clarity and transparency are imperative, as they leave no room for denial theories that would deprive the victims justice, or rob the living of a future. Generations of historians have enthusiastically gone about their craft knowing full well that 'he who owns the past, owns the future'. Improperly documented history, or more precisely, fraudulent versions of history not only deprive the victims of pasts injustices due recognition of their suffering, but also rob the living of a fair chance at a future free from the dangers of repeating past injustices.”
Source: From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
“Past is tolerable if remote enough.”
Source: DEATH BE NOT PROUD
“Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.”
“Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.”
Source: The Answers