#past

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#fame #fortune #fruit #great #great reward

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ↗

— George Eliot

#ancestral #city #funeral #gathered #hemisphere

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. ↗

— Alice Thomas Ellis

#alright #enemy #everything #got #i

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#ever #get #give #i #ideas

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#because #complex #deal #get #i

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#because #body #cover #done #embarrassed

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#areas #asean #association #because #been

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. ↗

— Cory Booker

#also #avarice #calls #common #common sense

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#director #had #her #his #i

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ↗

— Euripides

#future #his #learning #loses #neglects