Quotes having the keyword Past
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
by Virginia Woolf (born in 1970) keywords: beautiful, because, complete, emotion, emotions, expands, later, never, note, only, past, present, realises, thus , time Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
by William Wordsworth (born in 1770) keywords: better, divided, future, into, learn, life, live, past, present, profit, terms, three, us, which , will Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
by Fay Wray (born in 1907) keywords: arms, being, clean, compulsive, crawford, direction, done, elbows, enough, get, hands, her, just, lot, past, she, up, washed , way As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
by Judith Wright (born in 1915) keywords: connect, deeper, get, gratification, instant, material, others, our, ourselves, part, past, superficial, universe, wants , well Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
by Martin Yan (born in 1948) keywords: able, accent, age, america, anyone, come, eighteen, never, past, say, shake, understand, will , your So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
by A. B. Yehoshua (born in 1936) keywords: another, certain, deliberation, dot, end, go, here, historian, judge, moment, never, past, put, say, stop, thing , truth In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
by Dwight Yoakam (born in 1956) keywords: able, bag, basis, cassette, commit, constant, developed, habit, house, ideas, keeping, memory, numerous, past, recorders, small, song, tape , years The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.
by Shigeru Yoshida (born in 1878) keywords: been, china, economy, exaggerated, experience, important, japanese, often, our, past, proven, role, second, trade , years You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
by James Young (born in 1949) keywords: ago, centuries, country, ethic, four, know, least, moment, needless, out, past, puritan, say, started, tell , thing We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
by Steve Yzerman (born in 1965) keywords: better, cup, defense, did, few, game, get, know, needed, over, past, play, seasons, stanley, teams, throughout , winning The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
by Israel Zangwill (born in 1864) keywords: appeal, continuation, cradle, danger, glamour, imitation, inspiration, our, past, prison, repetition , well I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.
by Pieter Zeeman (born in 1865) keywords: able, academy, am, contribute, convince, count, fortunate, great, interest, myself, paid, past, recognition, royal, sciences, shown, successes, swedish, track, which, work , wrong What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
by Philip Zimbardo (born in 1933) keywords: does, dominate, evil, good, happens, history, into, morality, past, place, put, situation, their , triumph