#past

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#collective #each #idea #influenced #kind

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#because #been #defeated #failure #feelings

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#end #expected #go #i #me

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#brackets #each #either #enclosing #except

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#caused #country #dangerous #effects #energy

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. ↗

— Lewis B. Smedes

#bitter #cannot #change #creates #deleted

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate. ↗

— Luke Ford

#effeminate #faith #i #love #men

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#believe #fifty #had #i #i am

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#causing #forget #future #instead #like

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#act #graveyards #memories #museums #parks