David Mitchell Past Quotations

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

It's a learning process for him as it is for any young guy when all of a sudden he gets an opportunity to play, ... Once he gets the ball in his hands and he gets past the line of scrimmage, that's all on his ability. What we're trying to get accomplished is to get him into the second level of the defense.