Past time Quotes

“For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!”

“Spreading rumours is our national past time”

“It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense.”

“Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.”

“It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.”

“It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives—an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5).”

“God has given us a message that is not only for past times and this time, but for all time.”

“As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.”

“Simon gave her a startled look. 'I don't believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.' She shrugged. 'It was probably past time.”