Best past & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.”

World Important Past Form Felt Memories Cases Cups France Championship Injured World Cup Great Memories

Author:Michel Patini

“Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.”

Past Form Literature Emotional Intellectual Creeds Castes

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.”

Ifs Littles Past Form Air Strange Bird Embrace Setting Settings Chains Halls Flew Alchemy Unbroken Timelessness Larks Ascending Anglo Saxon English Music

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.”

Years Facts Bigs Past Form Five Products Kings Scary Fats Five Years Copies Software Manuals Documentation

Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace

“The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.”

Age Past Form Artist Genuine Midst Great Art Great Artist Timeliness

Author:Franz Marc

“The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.”

Way Might Past Form Order Force Christ Challenges Events Seeking Maturity Fixed Resurrection Isolated Stretching Static Defying Unleashing

Author:Frank Griswold

“By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.”

Source: The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms

“The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.”

Men May Stills Sometimes Past Form Joy Journey Childhood

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations because the form that had those incarnations has dissolved into the clear light of reality.”

Ifs Reality Light Past Form Universe Behinds Clear Enlightenment Enlightened Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background”

Men Past Form Black Consciousness Produce Hero Approach Core Backgrounds Black Consciousness

Author:Steven Biko

“Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.”

Seems Might Past Form Heaven Memories Dark Novel Hell Exciting Exploration Tense Gripping Chevy

Author:Lisa Unger

“We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.”

Light Past Form Fall Vision Shadow Experience Vary

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role.”

Ifs Knows Wells Past Form Lying Roles Capacity Machines Function Certainty Features Imperfect Organisms Unpredictable Adapted Quirky Optimal

Book:Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

“The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.”

Wisdom Past Form Wise Judgment

Author:Sophocles

“Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.”

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.”

Today Past Form Principles Fashion Identity Bases Affected Resurrection Relevance Abolition Recycling Actuality Retro Recurrence

Book:Symbolic Exchange and Death

Source: Symbolic Exchange and Death

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.”

States Past Happiness Form Forget Profound Wit Intense Enjoyment Intoxication Forget The Past

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a thing of the past, to establish full freedom for all. Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.”

Men Firsts Mean States Government Past Form Law Principles Command Compulsion Anarchism State Government

Book:The Social Monster: A Paper on Communism and Anarchism

Source: The Social Monster: A Paper on Communism and Anarchism

“The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.”

Past Form Continuity Viewpoints

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.”

Way Important Past Form Evil Shapes Property

Author:Erik Naggum

“The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.”

Love Looks Art Past Form Enjoy

Author:John Kurtz

“Karma is not something pessimistic. If you think of karma as something wrong, you are seeing karma only according to what happened in the past. You look at the past and karma becomes a monster. So you should also look at karma in the present and future. Then karma becomes something very wide and really alive. Through karma you can understand what your destiny is. Destiny itself has no solid form; it's something you can create. You can create your life. That is why we study karma.”

Ifs Thinking Should Looks Past Form Destiny Study Alive Seeing Happened Wide Karma Monsters Our Destiny Your Destiny Pessimistic

Book:Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

“Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'”

Should Self Feelings Past Form Mines Materials Insight

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.”

People Way May Made Ends Past Form Culture House Sex Understanding Effort Secret Poverty Path Greater Dying Circumstances Suicide Historical Bounds Yield British History

Author:David Cannadine

“All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.”

World Should Past Form Can Do Atheism Positive Atheism Dogmatic

Author:Theodore Dreiser

“I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.”

Past Form Devotion Just One Unrequited Love Unrequited Snobbery

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.”

“We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.”

Looks May Made Whole Age Past Form Vision Doubt Progress Fields Limits Training Contact Range No Doubt Horizon Transition Peculiar Tubes

Author:Cargill Gilston Knott

“... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.”

Past Form Response Confession Prompts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the past expressed that of the Arabs) has been reborn and has appeared in a new form: Arab nationalism.”

Knows Has Beens Today Past Form Europe Islam Nationalism Fearful Reborn

Author:Michel Aflaq

“It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense”

“Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.”

Stories Past Form Educational Circles Past And Present Educational System Scholastics

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or later become petrified forms instead of living helps to mankind. Until that time comes, however, if religion of any name or nature makes man more happy, comfortable, and able to live peaceably with his brothers, it is good.”

Ifs Men Helping Able Past Form Names Grows Atheism Mankind Brother Comfortable Positive Atheism Sooner Or Later

Author:Luther Burbank

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