#the past

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#anchors #consequently #in the past #know #language

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#been #certain #destructive #i #in the past

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#feel #free #i #in the past #past

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people. ↗

— Marc Almond

#complete opposite #confusing #diverse #i #i think

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#about #aim #am #certain #cosmetic

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

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#bill #david #eight #end #got

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#although #drink #i #in the past #much

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it. ↗

— Christian Bale

#attack #backwards #began #few #forwards