Quotes and Sayings About Past

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Religious #Thinking #Past

Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Lying #Past #Government

What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Past #Brave New World #Thinking

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Art #Truth #Past

What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Past #Upper Class #People

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Memories #Son #Past

Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.
-- Aleatha Romig

#Past #Childhood #Changed

I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Sorry #Regret #Past

When it’s all said and done I would like to look back and think that I help to make modelling a possibility for a greater number of people. I don’t do things that I will regret in the future. I tend to err on the side of caution. Not to mention the fact that the present world I reside in would not have been possible without my past. I am most proud of being able to represent my family and community with honour and dignity.
-- Alek Wek

#Regret #Past #Thinking

One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Flower #Reality #Past

It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Pain #Character #Past

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Attitude #Past #Looks

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Past #Analysis #Honest

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Past #Ungrateful #Favors

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Past #Atrocities #Failing

The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.
-- Alex Garland

#Book #Divorce #Past

If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.
-- Alex Jones

#Change #Real #Past

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someones past, whether youre portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.
-- Alex Pettyfer

#Past #Thinking #Creating

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
-- Alex Rodriguez

#Winning #Past #People

I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to get consumed with that. Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. My goal is to play one full game in the now, but I haven't even gotten past the first inning yet. I start thinking about where my mom is or if my dogs have been fed. The average human has 2,000 thoughts a day. The really accomplished have 1,500 because you can focus longer. I need to learn how to focus longer.
-- Alex Rodriguez

#Mom #Dog #Past

I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know them, is really f***ed up. So I'm pleased I experienced that side of it, so I can learn to be a better person on the other side of it. I'm sure in the past I've been judgmental too ... Self esteem, that's something you've got to work on yourself. I know for me it's different day to day.
-- Alexa Chung

#Self Esteem #Past #Thinking

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
-- Alexander Cockburn

#Past #Keys #Massacres

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.
-- Alexander Lowen

#Cutting #Past #Growth

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
-- Alexander MacLaren

#Past #Safe #Forget

For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees - that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man.
-- Alexander Masters

#Believe #Past #Men

In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
-- Alexander Pope

#Queens #Eye #Past

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
-- Alexander Pope

#Past #Errors #Each Day

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
-- Alexander Pope

#Past #Politics #Lasts

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
-- Alexander Pope

#Character #Past #Lasts

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
-- Alexander Pope

#Memories #Past #Men