#past

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. ↗

— David Antin

#dialogue #future #inside #oral #past

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#actuality #after #appearance #become #been

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#astounding #every #i #met #past

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#appealed #fact #first #first thing #great

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#before #catching #cruise #days #down

Sweet is the memory of past troubles. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#past #sweet #troubles

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#away #ceaselessly #connection #maintain #must

I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run. ↗

— Soichiro Honda

#could #down #down the road #driven #even

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#could #grove #lamb #lefty #past

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies. ↗

— David Bailey

#i #i am #in the past #journalists #lies