While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute presents for children's birthdays.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
We want to change to point of view about Latinos in the world and Colombians. Forget about the bad past.
You can't sit back, rest on laurels and think about the past - what the journey has been.
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
We've all had relationships; I've had them in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'Ah, that was a mistake.' I take what I learnt and move onto the next one.
I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.
Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.
People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.
If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.
I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
It would be false if I claim that the Congress has in the past not let down its ideology, especially pertaining to Muslim community.
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Moral licensing comes into play when people rely on past behavior to dismiss current prejudiced behavior. This is better known as the 'Some of my best friends are...' defense.
It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.
