10 QUOTES WITH «THE PAST»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
the past.
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.
Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.
The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE PAST»
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the past in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the past and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Redeeming
the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer
His memoir tells the story of this horrendous event, backing up to recount the journey that led him there particularly his rising awareness of the radical social implications of the gospel and his identification with the liberation struggle ...
Michael Lapsley, Stephen Karakashian, 2012
With the Empire on the brink of total collapse, the New Republic, an awkward confederation of many races and cultures, confronts its own problems as age-old animosities threaten to unravel the alliance, with the help of old enemies and ...
3
Voice of
the Past: Oral History
In the survey of work in the field, Thompson extends his prodigious capacity for sythesising a huge range of the sources available around the world, drawing from many different case studies to make his points.
4
Performing
the Past: Memory, History, and Identity in Modern ...
Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the University of Amsterdam.
Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree, J. M. Winter, 2010
5
Burying
the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice After Civil ...
Burying the Past asks these important questions: How do newly democratic nations put to rest the conflicts of the past? Is granting forgiveness a politically viable choice for those in power? Should justice be restorative or retributive?
6
Africa Since 1940:
The Past of
the Present
This textbook bridges colonial and post-colonial history to explain the effects of political independence on the populace.
Well-kept secrets, passionate love, obsession, betrayal, redemption, and the power of the past to control the future propel Secrets from the Past, the explosive new novel from The New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford
Barbara Taylor Bradford, 2013
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When
the Past Is Present: Healing
the Emotional Wounds That ...
In this book, psychotherapist David Richo explores how we replay the past in our present-day relationships—and how we can free ourselves from this destructive pattern.
9
Reading
the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in ...
This third edition includes new material on feminist archaeology, historical approaches such as cultural history, and theories of discourse and signs.
Ian Hodder, Scott Hutson, 2003
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The Past is a Foreign Country
Discusses nostalgia, history, and preservation, explains how the past influences the future, and analyzes modern feelings toward the past The past is everywhere.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE PAST»
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the past is used in the context of the following news items.
24 Hours In The Past review – back to the ordure
24 Hours In The Past (BBC1) is a recycled idea: send people back in time, ... she's always around when there's dressing up and living in the past going on; again ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
'Sins of the Past'
Antoine arrives in France with news about Queen Elizabeth, and Catherine discovers the world's deadliest ... Bible? by Samantha Highfill • @samhighfill. «EW Community, Feb 15»
Nintendo Power's 'A Link to the Past' comic returning in May
The story of the manga more or less follows the story of "A Link to the Past," fleshed out with a range of plot developments and characters that weren't in the ... «CNET, Jan 15»
The Past, review
The Past might not contain a scrap of science fiction, but even so, it's a story about time travel. The new Asghar Farhadi picture is about people who try to shake ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 14»
X-Men: Days Of Future Past - What We Know So Far
Several significant pieces from the past and present are coming back to the screen for a generations-spanning story in this summer's X-Men: Days of Future Past ... «Cinema Blend, Mar 14»
'The Past' has much to teach us
In any event, “The Past” can't be denied, even if it's not quite up to the level of Farhadi's “A Separation,” winner of the best foreign language film Oscar in 2012. «Boston Globe, Jan 14»
The Past picked as Iran's official Oscar entry
The Past, which won the best actress award in Cannes for Bérénice Bejo, is a study of ... The Past was well-liked at Cannes, with the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw ... «The Guardian, Sep 13»
Cannes Film Review: 'The Past'
Asghar Farhadi may have left his native Iran to shoot a picture in Paris starring Berenice Bejo, but in all the ways that count, “The Past” couldn't feel closer to ... «Variety, May 13»
Zelda: A Link to the Past Sequel Headed to 3DS, Earthbound …
Alongside a massive pile of other game news, Nintendo announced today that a sequel to their 1991 classic The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is coming ... «Wired, Apr 13»
Zelda 3DS: It's Majora's Mask vs. Link to the Past
Nintendo has given three distinct signals in this regard - a remake of Majora's Mask, a sequel or remake of A Link to the Past, or something completely original. «IGN, Jun 12»
