“He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.” ShouldLooksHappensPastHappenedCounterpartsTimes Past Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this.” IfsYearsGovernmentPastLyingResponsibilitySupportHappenedBearsThousandResearchYears AgoHistoricalDeedsHolocaustPalestinianThousand Years Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.” PastHappened Author:Dana Reinhardt
“In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking.' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.” ThinkingKindMomentsHappensTodayPastGivenHappenedVictimDeterminedPerpetual Author:Jenni Schaefer
“For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.” Has BeensLastsPastGamesStudyHappened Author:Fabio Capello
“I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.” ThinkingWantPastWealthGenerationsHappenedBlessing Author:Warren Buffett
“Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.” PeopleWorldYearsIdeasPastWalksTalkingEnvironmentHappenedThis WorldWallThousandEnglandEverydayLondonPassingPassingsThousand YearsEveryday LifeIrrelevantSurvivingOld YouRelics Author:Miles Millar
“Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.” DonePastCoursesCan DoHappenedHealDestroyingUs History Author:Arundhati Roy
“Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.” MatterPastHappenedRight Now Author:Carl Crawford
“To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).” WantDoeHas BeensShowsAgePastHappenedJudgingOfficeBenefitsAspire Author:Leopold von Ranke
“There's this other world where all comedians want to do is make funny videos. Typically what's happened in the past is that a comedian gets a standup career and over the course of 20 years builds it up to the point where Comedy Central gives them a sketch show.” WorldWantGivingYearsShowsPastCoursesCareersComedyHappenedVideoComedianOther WorldsFunny Videos Author:Gavin McInnes
“We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodomand Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.” PastPiecesHappenedHigherActivityPaperConsequenceEnvySellingErasEngagedBuyingImitationFeedingTradingPromotingPercentagesBuying And Selling Author:Charlie Munger
“The great thing about having a serialized drama (like 'Sons of Anarchy') is that I'm allowed to bring up events and circumstances that have happened in the past in other episodes to show that this kind of violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. It has ramifications. It has repercussions. Whether it's a week from now or five years from now, you know it will play out. Nothing is ever tied up into a perfect knot.” KnowsYearsKindPlayShowsHappensPastPerfectFiveViolenceHappenedWeekEventsSonCircumstancesDramaGreat ThingsFive YearsAnarchyTiedEpisodesVacuumsKnotsRepercussionsTied UpRamifications Author:Kurt Sutter
“Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.” MayMatterPastHistoryWiseHappenedEventsSarcasmSarcasticDivided Book:Assessments and Anticipations Source: Assessments and Anticipations
“J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.” KnowsBelievePersonsMadePastWonderfulHappenedTalentManagers Author:LaToya Jackson
“Well my wife and I just had a baby ourselves and it makes it harder to be on the road. It isn't for everybody and it can burn people out, and that's what's happened in the past. We've just kept the ship running y'know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything's alright.” PeopleKnowsWellsMeanLongRunningPastWifeHappenedBabyHarderMy WifeShipsEngineersAlright Author:Al Barr
“I do take a computer to do some processing live and I might use a couple of plug-in synthesisers, 'cause obviously you can take quite a lot of power in terms of sound generation on a computer that I can trigger from a couple of keyboards. And it means I don't have to take some of my vintage stuff and have it trashed by various airlines which has happened in the past. But I still take some vintage stuff with me, I'll take that risk because I like using all that stuff.” MeanStillsI CanUseMightPastCausesStuffSoundTermRiskGenerationsHappenedCoupleComputerVariousTriggersAirlineVintageKeyboardsProcessingPlugsMight UseVintage Stuff Author:Thighpaulsandra
“But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a colostomy bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized by past abuse, it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."” IfsPersonsBookStoriesBodyWantedPastWishFeltStuffTalkingHappenedNeededAbuseCancerBagsSlipsMentalityFartWanted Someone Author:Eve Ensler
“But to your point - you also raise a point, too, that it's not that, like, a bromance is necessarily a new thing. It's happened a lot in sort of big budget comedies in the past decade or so. But people have pointed out to us that we're doing a bromance, so to speak, but doing it in a different way that's even more authentic and real and sincere.” PeopleWayDifferentRealBigsPastSpeakComedyHappenedRaisesDecadesBudgetsDifferent WaysSincereNew ThingsBromance Author:Steve Zissis
“The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the US has been at the center of most of the energy things that have happened.” WayHas BeensStatesPastEnergyLevelsUnitedUnited StatesHappenedCostLowsGood ThingsBritishNuclearGasEnginesInnovativeSteamNuclear PowerCo2Steam Engines Author:Bill Gates
“I don't pray for anything, but I have used affirmations in the past a few times. They are really a bit more like realizations in that on some level they have already happened.” PastUsedBitsLevelsHappenedPrayingRealizationAffirmation Author:Eckhart Tolle