- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Past Quotes
Looking back to understand what comes next.
This collection of past quotes includes a mid-20th-century physicist's assessment of the atomic-age power balance between Europe and the Anglo-Saxon powers, alongside a separate scientific note on how measurement affects what can be known about earlier moments. Both sit alongside a simpler idea: building your future apart from your past. Related themes appear in our Truth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've said many times in the past that my career's not going to go on much longer; I'm not going to keep going and riding until I'm in my 30s and things like this.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.
- Own
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
- Fresh
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Even by the diverse standards of Saturn's satellites, Enceladus was an outlier. Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.
- Mistake
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We all have relationships - I've had relationships in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'That was a mistake.'
- Change
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.
- Future
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
- Getting
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My record proves that I don't make political or public-service decisions based on what typical folks in Washington do, which is, 'What's going to get me past the next election, or what's best for my career?'
- Night
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
- Government
- |
- Nov 07, 2020