Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.
I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.