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Past Quotes (page 12)

Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire. Annie Dillard
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. Barbara Taylor Bradford
Will Durant quote: "The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past."
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past. Will Durant
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good. Story Musgrave
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. Simon Conway Morris
Victor Hugo quote: "What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex..."
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo
Doris Kearns Goodwin quote: "The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the..."
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. Doris Kearns Goodwin
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now. William Glasser
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist. Patrick Swayze
We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past. Heinz Fischer
Lion Feuchtwanger quote: "From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short..."
From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past. Lion Feuchtwanger
Perry Farrell quote: "I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was..."
I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great. Perry Farrell
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. Jared Diamond
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. Anita Desai
David McCullough quote: "First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such..."
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. David McCullough

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