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Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.”

People Home Seems Past Travel Photography Fervent

Source: On photography

“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.”

Way Looks Lasts Past Remember Land Cold Golden California Somewhere Else Old Ways Remembering The Past

Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.”

Trying Believe Humans Past Evidence Dare Deny Contrary Editors

Book:Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things

Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things

“Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.”

Ifs Littles Past Numbers Rights Caring Bustle

Book:Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio ; And, Shadows and Sunbeams

Source: Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio ; And, Shadows and Sunbeams

“O days remember'd well! remember'd all! The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall; Those garden rambles in the silent night, Those trees so shady, and that moon se bright, That thickset alley by the arbor clos'd, That woodbine seat where we at last repos'd; And then the hopes that came and then were gone, Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on.”

Wells Lasts Past Remember Night Gone Tree Sweet Moon Garden Silent Clouds Bitter Seats Honey Alleys Courtship Shady Bitter Sweet Silent Night Arbors

Author:George Crabbe

“A club there is of smokers--dare you come To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room? When, midnight past, the very candles seem Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam; When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise, And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.”

Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

“To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.”

“The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.”

Knows May Past History Our Lives Journey Fields Grew Draws Treasure Harvest Provision Reap

Book:The Lycian Shore

Source: The Lycian Shore

“What change has made the pastures sweet And reached the daisies at my feet, And cloud that wears a golden hem? This lovely world, the hills, the sward-- They all look fresh, as if our Lord But yesterday had finished them.”

Ifs World Looks Made Past Lord Feet Sweet Spring Clouds Finished Yesterday Lovely Golden Hills Our Lord Daisies Pastures Hem

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.”

Soul Past Peace Calm

Book:Poems by Jean Ingelow

Source: Poems by Jean Ingelow

“A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]”

Men Past Young Very Good Young Man

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.”

Trying Past Successful Operations

Author:Mary McCarthy

“The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.”

Past Differences Moral Judgment Ordinary Affair Practicals Reactions Contemporary Historian Provoking Implications Narrators Moral Judgment

Author:Geoffrey Barraclough

“Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.”

Want Mean Littles Past Glorious Accomplished

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.”

Today Past Yesterday Reach Out Octopus Tentacles

Author:Gladys Taber

“The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.”

Thinking Men World Way Years Littles Done Whole Past Love Is Rich Middle Regret Lovers Men And Women Bites Turkeys Flip Cocktails Don't Regret Napkins Years Of Life

Author:Marie Dressler

“Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.”

Past Cities Happened Preserves Canada Somewhere Else Montreal

Book:The Favorite Game: A Novel

Source: The Favorite Game: A Novel

“We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?”

Way Children Doe Stills Past Faces Father Force Social Change Behinds Eternity Our Children Shoulders Resistance One Way Why Not Status Quo Our Father Reluctant Stumbling Relics

Book:The Home

Source: The Home

“When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.”

Age Past Faces Figures Aging Fifty Your Face

Author:Barbara Cartland

“God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.”

May Has Beens Self Today Past Certain Powerful Effort Development Degrees Infinite Engaged Progressive Inherent Innate Power Of God

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.”

“Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the same time, by conscious choice of lighting and pictorial structure, suggest the aesthetic legacy of the past.”

Past Choices Courses Perfect Photography Conscious Structure Photographer Mediums Legacy Aesthetic Investigation Lighting Present Day Pictorial Specifics

Author:John Pfahl

“What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?”

Eye Past Rich Food Cooking Lips Culinary Pie Thanksgiving Pumpkin Thanksgiving Day Pumpkin Pie

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something.”

Needs Feels Persons Sometimes Past Turns Can Do Walks Issues Like You Safety Best Things You Can Do It Sexually Great Day Have A Great Day

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.”

Ifs Thinking Past Sound Player Impossible Involved Studios Atmosphere Can Not Motown

Author:Elton John

“I'm not an addict and I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize, but it is what it is and I can't change the past. And I can apologize to my family and my friends and my colleagues and the people.”

People Made I Can Past Can Do Mistake Drug My Friends My Family Apologizing Colleagues Addict Can't Change Made A Mistake It Is What It Is I Made A Mistake Can't Change The Past

Author:Rob Ford

“You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.”

Knows Facts Past Forever Illusion Free Will Prisoner Transition Locked

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect.”

People Way Kind Together Past Song Edges Connected Core Fierce Songwriters Hardcore Diy Straight Edge

Author:Stephan Jenkins

“Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?”

Ifs World Past Mistake Awareness Discovery Adults Shock Our Past Emerging My Past Past Mistakes

Author:D. T. Max

“It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.”

Giving Matter Done Past Choices Chance Right Now Breaths What Matters Starting Over Choices You Make

Author:Ashley Judd

“I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.”

Want Past Keep Going My Past Past Life

Author:Ted Danson

“For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.”

Thinking Two Past Remember Hours Differences Brain Minutes Details Meaningful Bullets Visualization Most Meaningful Positive Experiences

Author:Shawn Achor

“The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.”

Knows Trying Past Sound Gone Everyday Boxing Everyday Life Analogies

Author:Hilary Swank

“I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.”

Way Writing Kind Enough Past Reading Behinds Materials Dues Drawing Comic Schedules Writing And Reading Due Time

Author:Kate Beaton

“A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.”

Heart Past Desire Pure Deeper Songwriters Digging Dig Deep

Author:Jack White

“I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.”

People World Different Matter School Past Culture Gone Groups Habit Prison Corporations Paradigm

Author:Bob Proctor

“This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.”

World Needs Hard Past Company Position This World Skills Unlearn Learning New New Skills Learning New Skills

Author:Paul Polman

“I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.”

People World Want Believe Done Past Hate I Believe Perfect Violence Fairs Opposites I Hate Madness Cruelty Scare Scream Confrontation Amiable A Perfect World Unkindness Affable Moodiness

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.”

“Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.”

Past Religion Order Silence Eternal Males Dreary

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.”

Past Crime Seeds Brutality

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.”

Past Memories Extraordinary Past Memories

Author:George Sand

“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.”

World Wells Body Past Change Differences Worry Learning Future Quiet Eternal Witness Stillness

Author:Robert Adams

“People who think about the past have no future.”

People Thinking Past

Author:Hermione Gingold

“What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.”

Past Simple Responsibility Gratitude Future All Things Infinite Things Past

Book:The Huston Smith Reader

Source: The Huston Smith Reader

“In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.”

World Trying Past Mother History Becoming Female Archaeologists

Book:Among women

Source: Among women

“The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.”

Earth Past Air Spring Smell Hung Hints Lilac Wisps

Book:Experiment in Springtime: A Novel

Source: Experiment in Springtime: A Novel

“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.”

Dream Age Past Cities Century Building Fortune Architecture Tall Architect Twentieth Century Past And Present Landmarks Skyscraper Tall Buildings

Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

“Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.”

Knows Past Creativity Creative Draws Vacuums

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

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