T Quotes
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“The past rarely disappears. It simply learns how to remain quiet.”
Source: When the sky forgot my name
“The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite of this clear record, an amazing number of people have begun to scoff at the possibility of conspiracy at work today. They dismiss such an idea merely a conspiratorial point of view.”
“The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.”
“The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.”
“The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.”
“The past seems like a smashed windscreen after a car crash. All crazy opaque pieces barely held together by the laminate.”
Source: Losing our Marbles?
“The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.”
“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.”
“The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States.”
“The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.”
“The past should be seen as a time for learning, rather than a time for living.”
“The past should never serve as an encumbrance, but we must exploit our experiences as learning assets. The only importance of any experience is to test oneself. Worthy challenges, fused with humility of spirit, enrich a person’s character. One must harvest the grain from their effort and discard the shaft. Before moving onward, it is critical for me to look back and remove any negative predilections that accumulated from days gone by that might mar, stunt, or otherwise arrest future personal development.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn.”
Source: The Power of a Praying® Wife
“The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.”
“The past shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult decisions. There was always a choice.”
Source: Storm Glass
“The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.”
“The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]”
“The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.”
“The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.”
“The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.”
Source: The Summer Prince
“The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.”
Source: The Night Circus
“The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.”
“The past takes a different shape in the future.”
“The past teaches but never waits.
The present punishes carelessness.
The future simply puts a period.”
“The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment, to choose something better, to make a difference.”
“The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one lost fragile moment, to choose something better, to make a difference.”
“The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.”
“The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.”
Source: Dearest Clementine
“The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already exceeded 21 percent, and the trend will continue. We need a national rather than a government program of state guarantees”
“The past twenty years was all about "being fierce". I think we're tired of that now. I think women everywhere are asking why we have to grow claws to share this planet. Why do we have to grow fangs to stay here? We're tired of the fierceness, the viciousness. We want to get back in touch with our tenderness, we want comfort, we want to embrace and to be embraced. And I'm here for it, I'm here for this, I am so ready.”
“The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?”
“The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.”
Source: Remember Me Like This: A Novel
“The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.”
Source: A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
“The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“The past was a small notebook, much scribbled-upon, that I had somehow mislaid.”
Source: Zama
“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
“The past was "built", the present is "assembled" & the future - "programmed"!”
“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“The past was evident, pain infusing every line.”
Source: Edge of Sundown
“The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.”
“The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.”
Source: Captain's Fury
“The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“The past was just a place where uncontrolled freaks you had never consciously decided to include in your life entered it anyway and staggered around, breaking things.”
Source: Intimations: Stories
“The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!”
Source: The wind in the willows
“The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.”
“The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.”
Source: The Awakening
“The past was once the future! The greatest luck of the past was this: The future came and then it became the past! Today was once the future! The greatest luck of today was this: The future came and then it became today! But never forget that the future may not always come, and if it doesn't, neither the past nor the present can be created!”
“The past was once your present. Hope the present is not the past to the future”
“The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.”
Source: The Promised Land