#past

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#best #changed #dice #enough #expect

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet ↗

— Robert Browning

#nostalgia #reflection #the-past #love

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#fiction #highly #i #intellectual #material

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#dominate #evil #good #good people #happens

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#past #unexpected

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#davita #harp #past #planning #potok

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#conformity #future #history #mainstream #new-orleans

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#past #present-moment #life

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#borders #competitive #i #i always #my own

I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#along #been #browser #build #client