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If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
The industry needs transforming. It’s for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.
It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.
It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.
Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.
I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.
The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past
With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is.
...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.
I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.
I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.
You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.
The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.
I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now.
There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.
Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.
When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.
Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.
I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.
Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past
Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.
I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.
It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.
You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.