#past

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#car #content #could #days #due

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything. ↗

— David Arquette

#being #critical #everything #general #get

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#certainty #days #direct #few #however

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. ↗

— Sai Baba

#already #create #created #every #exists

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#catastrophes #destroyed #itself #past #presents

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#begun #few #i #in the past #man

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#brooks #creation #destruction #earth #environment

I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nature to do this--unless its your first relationship, which might be the very reason that your first relationship feels special and remains forever sacred. But the older you get, the more cynical you become, and the more complicated and convoluted the exercise is. You begin to realize that nothing is perfect, that there are trade-offs and sacrifices. The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in the present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#relationships #sacrifice #nature

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was. ↗

— John Fowles

#nature #past #solitude #nature

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#past #present #nostalgia