Oscar Wilde Quotes, Heart Quotes, Past Quotes

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Past Quotes , Abundance Quotes

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Past Quotes

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Games Quotes

Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

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Tags : Adam Lindsay Gordon Quotes , Past Quotes , People Quotes

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Hope Quotes , Past Quotes

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Past Quotes , May Quotes

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Past Quotes

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Past Quotes , Gold Quotes

It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Loyalty Quotes , Past Quotes

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Past Quotes , Years Quotes

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Past Quotes , Forget Quotes

I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

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Tags : Adam Johnson Quotes , Past Quotes , Imagination Quotes

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Change Quotes , Past Quotes

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Past Quotes , Accomplishment Quotes

She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.

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Tags : Aidan Chambers Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Past Quotes

O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Past Quotes

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

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Tags : A. B. Yehoshua Quotes , Truth Quotes , Past Quotes

Past art is subject to change.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Past Quotes